{"id":118938,"date":"2026-01-15T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:34:19","slug":"ty-simpson-alabama-qb-declined-6-5-million-offer-from-miami-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/118938\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson: Alabama QB declined $6.5 million offer from Miami to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ty Simpson told On3<\/a> he skipped out on duck hunting Sunday because he didn\u2019t know what to do. <\/p>\n

Simpson was weighing whether to stick with his NFL declaration or consider the multi-million-dollar offers from other programs to enter the transfer portal he received from Miami, Ole Miss and Tennessee. <\/p>\n

Simpson, as AL.com reported Sunday<\/a>, received an offer as high as $6.5 million to enter the transfer portal, even after he declared for the draft. He told On3 that was from Miami, who upped the offer from an original $4 million. That\u2019s about what Ole Miss and Tennessee offered him as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cI really felt good with my decision to go pro, but that amount of money to play college football again for what amounts to about eight months makes you stop and think,\u201d Simpson told On3. \u201cI remember my parents telling me that $6 million was more than they had made the whole time they had been married, but the thing they wanted most for me was to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Saban, Simpson said, gave him the advice of \u201ctake the money out of it.\u201d If everybody offered no money \u201cwhat would you want to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just couldn\u2019t do it because of everything I stood for and what Alabama had meant to me and the legacy that I built there,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cEverybody would just remember me as the guy who took all this money and went to Miami or Tennessee for his last year. But I was a captain. I put my hand and footprints in the cement at Denny Chimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, Simpson signed and submitted the paperwork to officially enter the NFL draft Tuesday<\/a>, sources with knowledge of the situation told AL.com<\/a>. Simpson was in Tuscaloosa early this week to submit the paperwork ahead of the Wednesday deadline. <\/p>\n

\u201cBeen a great ride,\u201d Simpson wrote on Instagram on Tuesday with a picture of his locker.<\/p>\n

Simpson completed 305 of 473 passes (64.5%) for 3,567 yards, 28 touchdowns and five interceptions in his lone season as Alabama\u2019s starting quarterback. Simpson waited three seasons for his chance to lead the Crimson Tide. He then became a captain who helped Alabama win its first College Football Playoff game in the 12-team era against Oklahoma before the Crimson Tide\u2019s season ended in the Rose Bowl to Indiana. <\/p>\n

Simpson never made more than $1 million in one season at Alabama, he told On3. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know people always say it\u2019s not about the money, and I could have made way more money somewhere else, but I was happy at Alabama and wanted to stand on what I built there. That\u2019s the way I wanted to go out,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n

Read Simpson\u2019s full interview with On3\u2019s Chris Low here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson told On3 he skipped out on duck hunting Sunday because he didn\u2019t know what to do.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8168,59814,123,125,124,62,9903],"class_list":{"0":"post-118938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-crimson-tide","9":"tag-iron-bowl","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-sec","14":"tag-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}