Johnny Manziel’s rise and fall from stardom continues so as to add new wrinkles.
The previous Texas A&M star appeared on Shannon Sharpe’s Membership Shay Shay for an interview Wednesday. Along with issuing apologies to Drake and LeBron James for previous behaviors, Manziel revealed some beforehand unknown information about his school soccer profession and the fallout from his NFL collapse.
Manziel revealed that earlier than he formally declared for the NFL, his father had reportedly tried to negotiate an under-the-table deal for his son to return to Texas A&M with out Manziel’s information.
“It’s the spring of 2014, December 2013,” Manziel mentioned throughout the interview. “I’m getting ready to make this decision on if I’m going to the NFL draft or if I’m going to stay. My dad went and had a meeting with Kevin Sumlin. And pretty much went to him man to man and was like, ‘We’ll take $3 million and we’ll stay for the next two years.’
“And my dad did this without me knowing. And I ain’t mad at him about it for nothing.”
Manziel went on to element that faculties throughout that point had a “bagman” who would hand out money to gamers and recruits in trade for commitments.
“It’s the way the business worked back then,” Manziel mentioned. “There was a bag man. There was a bagman at LSU. There was a bagman at ‘Bama. There was a bagman at every school around the country if you were competing for a national title. It is what it was, and it was always that way until we’re into the NIL portion of everything now, the way it should be.”
The previous Browns quarterback additionally detailed the ramifications of a deep cocaine dependancy that developed as soon as he was dismissed from the Browns. Manziel reportedly misplaced 40 factors due to it.
“I was 2010 points when I left Cleveland,” Manziel mentioned, later following up with “I was 170 pounds sitting in Vegas.” When Sharpe inquired concerning the fast weight reduction, Manziel replied, “How do you lose 40 pounds? You’re on a strict diet of blow.”
Manziel has been sober since 2016. The primary-round quarterback continues to be extraordinarily open about his downfall from school soccer stardom. Manziel launched a Netflix documentary Johnny Soccer in August 2023 that documented the rise and fall of the two-time Heisman winner.
