NEW YORK-For half an hour during a clinic in NFL sponsored Wednesday for 600 children in New York City, Auburn Heisman winner Cam Newton seemed to be just an oversized boy in the crowd. His ever-present smile seemed as easy as he passes to his receivers being lobbed Smurf and averages.
Then, just like that, Newton was gone.
NFL Staff does not have any explanation, but hasty exit an application of Newton was raised about the readiness to be a quarterback face future of a franchise, management of everything that comes with this responsibility and off the field?
Newton's father, Cecil Newton, spoke with the United States today, while his son himself enjoyed during the event ' Play60 '.
"We don't know what's going to happen, '' said his father, Cecil."We're just excited and we are humbled by the process of the whole project.
"I can't say what it might do. From what I know about coach Ron Rivera, who are coming in with a new beginning, a new approach that offers a great start, ideal for Cam. I heard nothing but great things.
Cecil Newton declined to discuss the storm of NCAA investigation last November which found him at the Centre of a system of pay-per-play designed to orient the child to the State of Mississippi after a first season 2009 at Blinn Junior College in Texas. The investigation announced in early December that the Auburn quarterback had no knowledge of the schema.
"I can't reopen the question of the NCAA, he did say this? Not based on the legal situation that we cannot respond to anything that is associated with ' father of Newton said.
The Auburn quarterback said of the Scouting combine at the end of February that the inquiry and the controversy drew father and son closer.
"Yes, I did, '' said Cecil Newton."It is part of it, confidentiality (father-son) and confidence.
"If my son was Mr. irrelevant (as the last player selected in the draft), I would love him the same. If it had been a truck driver or operator of the toll booth, it wouldn't matter to me. I would try to be available to him just as they are now.
"He is a top-shelf. But I see it as, ' Cam, family member, someone has got to cut the grass. Someone has got to do chores and run some errands for her mother. ' '
One thing that the father wants to ensure fans: whatever team takes her son in 76th annual meeting of the NFL, the winner of the Heisman Trophy will give her everything.
Newton should be chosen first overall, would become the first player from Leon Hart, Notre Dame in 1950 to win the Heisman Trophy, a title of national champion and the top choice of the overall project.
"He is a competitor and he put the body of the work necessary to advance, '' said Cecil Newton."I can't say where is his ceiling or learning curve of what he will move on. He is capable of producing plays out of pocket. It remains to be seen how it turns out.
"But he'll come into the League trying to do the right things.
How will react the Newton senior, who played two seasons as a safety undrafted free-agent Dallas Cowboys, when he hears the name of his son, called Thursday night?
"I'll be absolutely amazed, '' said Cecil Newton."Probably I'm going to faint before it's all over with.
"It is unbelievable. Look at Mark herzlich (Boston College linebacker who overcame cancer in 2009). I draw strength from a person like that, who had the will to overcome the radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
He is a hero '.
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