In the lead-up to Sunday's NFC Championship Game, there will be no shortage of discussion regarding quarterbacks Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers and Carson Palmer of the Arizona Cardinals. The two are likely to finish as the top two vote-getters in the race to be named the 2015 NFL MVP.
Those signal-callers will no doubt have a huge impact on the game, and both are feeling more than a little pressure to lead their squads to a berth in Super Bowl 50.
However, Newton and Palmer are hardly the only players feeling the squeeze this week.