LOOK: Deion Sanders' son mocks Nick Saban's NIL accusation against Jackson State

Alabama coach Nick Saban finds himself under more scrutiny for his comments regarding Jackson State coach Deion Sanders and NIL. Shedeur Sanders, the son of Deion Sanders and quarterback for the Tigers, posted a tweet Thursday poking fun at Saban after the Crimson Tide head man claimed the Tigers paid one player $1 million to join their team.

“A Mil,” Shedeur Sanders wrote. “(Deion Sanders) gets made if I don’t finish eating the chicken off the bone!”

A Mill 😂 @DeionSanders gets mad if I don’t finish eating the chicken off the bone!

— Shedeur Sanders (@ShedeurSanders) May 19, 2022

The claim from Nick Saban against Deion Sanders came on the same day the Alabama coach also called out Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M for its No. 1 recruiting class. He alleged that both the Aggies and Tigers came about players illegally, setting up big paydays through NIL collectives.

“Jackson State paid a guy a million dollars last year that was a really good Division I player to come to school. It was in the paper. They bragged about it! Nobody did anything about it,” Saban said, according to AL.com’s Mike Rodak.

Saban did not mention any players by name, leaving fans to speculate exactly who he was referring to with his comments. Some believe he could be referring to high-profile recruit Travis Hunter, whom Deion Sanders was able to flip away from a Florida State commitment on signing day. Sanders was loudly critical of rumors that Jackson State paid for any recruited players, joking that “We ain’t got no money!” when speaking on the rumors.

The Jackson State coach has expressed disappointment with Saban, whom he has worked with previously on various commercials and in the college football realm. Speaking on I Am Athlete, Sanders didn’t hold back about what happened Wednesday night in Birmingham.

“I got to check him [Saban], so he knows don’t play with me,” Sanders said, via AL.com’s Mike Rodak.

Sanders also pointed out where Saban said what he said. He was at an event with Alabama business leaders, which is another reason why he didn’t appreciate how his name came up during the remarks. That said, he understood what Saban’s goal was given the setting.

“Coach Saban used me and used Jimbo Fisher as pawns in his plea for help from his boosters and his donors,” Sanders said. “We were just pawns. He was really going at his people to up the ante so that he could out-do coach Fisher.

“They just threw me in the fire because of what we accomplished in recruiting last year. … They just threw us in the fire because [Saban] was the spokesman of the all the SEC and he was the spokesman for all the Power 5s and the PWIs [predominantly-white institutions] by saying, ‘We can’t let that happen again now.’ … So I don’t blame the man. I know what he was trying to do. I saw through the bull, I really did.”

On3’s Austin Brezina and Nick Schultz contributed to this report.