Levi Bell gave his word.
Three years ago, Bell’s father, Chase, passed away after a fight with cancer.
Bell, an undersized, underrecruited player out of Cedar Park High School – which is 50 miles north of the Texas State campus – had put his football career on hold to be with his dad as he faced Stage IV colon cancer.
Chase Bell was diagnosed in the fall of 2018 when Levi was in his freshman season at The College of Idaho, an NAIA program in Caldwell located about 30 minutes outside of Boise. When the Bell family found out about the diagnosis, Levi made the hard choice of leaving the game he loved and the only school that offered him an opportunity to play football at the college level coming out of high school.