Black and Blue Review
More than 60 players were on the Panthers’ practice fields Wednesday, but for 10 minutes, coach Ron Rivera was transfixed on one guy. As quarterback Cam Newton went through routes with his receivers, Rivera carefully studied his most important player.
“He looked good. He threw the ball well. He threw a couple deep balls, a couple over 60 yards,” Rivera said.
It was an incredible sight considering eight days earlier, Newton crawled out of his wrecked truck a couple blocks away from where he was now practicing. And somehow, he was flinging passes with what appeared to be his normal velocity despite two broken bones in his back.
“He’s just built a different type of way,” receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. “God has blessed that man tremendously. He created him differently.”