Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson has made some big headlines over the last couple of weeks since the season came to a disappointing close in a blowout Rose Bowl defeat.

After that juncture, he was left with a major decision to make.

Though Simpson was seen as a potential top overall selection in the NFL Draft midway through the season, he closed the year on a sour note and had some ugly performances down the stretch.

This left the signal caller to decide whether or not he would return to school and try to improve his draft stock.

But in today’s day and age of college football, a third option loomed for Simpson, and it was tempting.

He was receiving offers as high as $6.5 million from other schools such as Miami, Tennessee and Ole Miss to enter the transfer portal and come to their program, however he instead admirably turned down the offers and decided to bet on himself in the draft.

He was asked about that decision during a recent interview with Chris Low of On3 after finalizing his paperwork for the draft, and Simpson revealed that while the offers were extremely tempting, ultimately his Alabama legacy meant too much to him to jeopardize it by playing for another school.

“I had a knot in my stomach,” Simpson said on the offers from other schools.

“I didn’t know what to do. I 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.

I 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.

“[Kalen DeBoer and Ryan Grubb] have been so good to me. I’m sure they were wondering what was going on because they wanted a decision from me last Thursday so they could start building their roster for next year. I was honest and told them what I’d been offered, but that I just couldn’t do it because of everything I stood for and what Alabama had meant to me and the legacy that I built there.

Everybody 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.

I would have lost everything that I built at Alabama.”

Simpson also revealed that he asked his former coach Nick Saban for advice.

He recounted that Saban told him to make the decision independent of the money and simply based on what he wanted to do — which ultimately helped him make the choice to stay in the draft and be able to say, for the rest of time, that the only college team he played for was the Alabama Crimson Tide.

In a time in the sport where players are all too often looking out for only themselves and their pocket, Simpson’s loyalty to Alabama is admirable and will surely pay dividends down the line as he remains a member of the Crimson Tide family.

It’s safe to say Alabama fans will be rooting for him hard here at the next level.