Take a look at early MVP odds for the 2019 NFL season, and you'll have to scroll to find the man who won that award just four years ago.
Eleven names are listed above Cam Newton's, even though the 2015 MVP should be in his prime at age 30, is well-supported offensively and might actually be healthy again.
The veteran Carolina Panthers quarterback wasn't himself while battling a balky throwing shoulder in 2018.
"I was weak, you know, and I felt so vulnerable," Newton said of his injury-derailed campaign on his YouTube vlog, "I felt so scared.