Terrance Williams demonstrated a trait this offseason rarely seen in professional sports when he opted to re-sign with the Dallas Cowboys.

In the midst of his first offseason as an NFL free agent, Williams looked around the landscape of offers he received -- some being more financially fruitful than the four-year, $17M deal he'd eventually sign with the Cowboys -- and decided money isn't everything.

Loyalty is.

“It just wasn’t about money to me,” Williams said, via Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “There was a lot of money I could have taken, but it’s just the people. The guys I hang around with in my locker room and then the coaches that I have. That’s a bigger price tag on it for me than money."

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The former Baylor star was also born in Dallas, so tearing him away from his home wasn't going to be easy. This was made even more difficult by the 27-year-old deciding he owed owner Jerry Jones for believing in him in the first place.

“I feel like Mr. Jones took a chance on me and I feel like I got to return the favor to him,” Williams said. “The same with Dez and the rest of my teammates. When you’ve been around certain people for so long, going somewhere else just wouldn’t feel the same if you’re being successful.

“So to go to a different state and come back home when I see my bros, it just wouldn’t feel the same. I just feel like I owed them the respect that they gave me. I know a lot of people [Cowboys fans] didn’t like it, that’s part of the reason too I came back. Everybody thought I was fixing to go off and take something else and most people were mad too so that’s why I like it.”

And what of the unbridled and often unjustified criticism he receives from some Cowboys' fans?

“There’s a lot of stuff that I go through that people don’t know about,” said Williams. “It’s just one of those things you can let it get to you, or you can make it a fun game. That’s what I do [make it a fun game]. When you think you know me well, you really don’t.

"That’s the biggest joy that I get now.”

That leaves only one question for inquiring minds: Just how much did he turn down to stay put in the Metroplex, anyway?

“There was more out there, but I’m not about to get into that," Williams said. "I’m here so that’s the only thing that matters.”

That's one serious stiff-arm to capitalism.

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