On Sunday two elite quarterbacks will take the field after leading their team through a tournament featuring the NFL’s best, but they each did so in very different ways.
Cam “Superman” Newton rushed on to the scene in 2011 as the first overall pick in the NFL draft after winning the Heisman Trophy and a National Championship at Auburn. Many NFL analysts believed that Newton would struggle adjusting to the NFL and that his unique skill set would not translate to the quarterback position as it had in college. Newton proved the skeptics wrong in his historic rookie campaign as he set numerous rookie records, most notably most total yards by a rookie quarterback (4,799) and most touchdowns by a rookie (35, 21 pass and 14 rush).