Carolina’s RoboQB Cam Newton said people “haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to.” But haven’t we seen this story line before?
He is the Next Big Thing in the ever-expanding Big Bang evolution of offensive football. He’s part of an NFL lineage that once turned heads and dropped jaws when Fran Tarkenton had the audacity to leave the pocket in the early 1960s. Or when Randall Cunningham was chewing up yards with those long strides in the 1980s and ’90s. Or when 264-pound Daunte Culpepper was running over defensive linemen and launching deep balls to Randy Moss while finishing MVP runner-up to Peyton Manning in 2004.