Cam Newton: Latest Draft Hype-Machine to Sucker NFL Teams

March 4, 2011   ·   Bill Aquaviva   ·   Jump to comments

Every year we have to deal with some fly-by-night, one-year wonder who rocked the college football world, won a bunch of awards, maybe even a championship, who will be drafted about six rounds too high, get paid tens of millions of dollars, and turn out to be a huge bust.  This year's prime candidate is none other than Auburn QB Cam Newton.
Are NFL teams so desperate, and NFL personnel guys so unsure of themselves that they will follow the hype of one-year-wonder Cam Newton, who is actually being earmarked for the Bills at the No. 3 overall position in a mock 2011 NFL draft?  Really Michael Lombardi? No. 3 overall?  Has Cam’s dad corrupted you too?
 
Yes, Cam is big, strong, fast and talented.  He’s also been a winner his entire major college career —one year.  Yes, he led his team to the national championship, but so did Josh Heupel, Ken Dorsey, Craig Krenzel, Matt Mauck, Matt Leinart, Vince Young, Chris Leak, Matt Flynn, Tim ...

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