Cam Newton

  • Pro Bowl (2011)
  • AP Player of the Year (2010)
  • Walter Camp Award ( 2010)
  • Maxwell Award ( 2010)
  • Davey O'Brien Award ( 2010)
  • Manning Award ( 2010)
  • Heisman Trophy (2010)
  • 2 × BCS National Championship (2009, 2011)
  • Consensus All-American (2010)

Cameron Jerrell Newton ( born May 11, 1989 in Savannah, Georgia ) is an American football player. He won in college area with the team of Auburn University in the season 2010/2011 the National Championship Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA and the championship of the Southeastern Conference. In addition, he was awarded this season with the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award and several other distinctions. Since 2011 he plays in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers.

College years

Cameron Newton was born in 1989 in Savannah and played in the 2007 and 2008 in a total of six games at quarterback for the Florida Gators, the college football team of the University of Florida in the Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). Due to an injury he came into the 2008 season, which ended for the Florida Gators by winning the national championship, but only in the opening game used. After he was suspended due to the theft of a laptop computer on indefinitely from the team, he joined with the beginning of 2009 to the Blinn College in Texas town Brenham, with their football team he in the same year, the national championship of the National Junior College Athletic Association won.

From September 2010, he played for the Auburn Tigers Auburn University. He arrived with the team an undefeated season and thus winning the championship of the Southeastern Conference. In addition, the team won the victory in the BCS National Championship Game on January 10, 2011, compared the Oregon Ducks, University of Oregon, the national championship of NCAA Bowl Subdivision. For his achievements during this season, he received, among other things, the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Award as the best college football each player and the Davey O'Brien Award and the Manning Award as the best quarterback in each college football. He was so according to Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson, the third Heisman winner in the history of Auburn University. In addition, he was elected by several sports editors to All-American.

Because of allegations that his father had asked for talks with representatives of Mississippi State University illegal cash payments in return for a commitment of his son at the Mississippi State Bulldogs, however, there were persistent controversies surrounding the eligibility of Cameron Newton and thus the legality of his awards and his sporting achievements.

Cameron Newton's main subject in the study was sociology.

NFL Career

In the draft of the National Football League Cameron Newton was late April 2011, selected as the first players from the Carolina Panthers, with whom he completed a four-year contract in June 2011. Since September 2011, he belongs to the starting lineup of the team.

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