It’s not often that a former MVP and Super Bowl quarterback can fly, almost unnoticed, through the NFL rumor atmosphere, but for the last few months, Cam Newton has done exactly that. Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, Drew Brees and Jameis Winston — not to mention incoming rookies like Joe Burrow and Tua Tagovailoa — have drawn attention, speculation, hope.
Newton? He’s been virtually invisible.
Until now. Hours after Tom Brady rocked the NFL by announcing he’d be moving on from the Patriots, the Panthers pushed back with a shock wave of their own, indicating Newton would be free to seek a trade.