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Story of the Season: Cam

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Two NFL.com analysts think that Cam Newton has been the biggest story of the season so far.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d823ea5fe/article/newtons-meteoric-rise-among-big-stories-at-midpoint-of-season

Jason La Canfora

Cam Newton looks like he has the potential to be a truly special quarterback, with a combination of skills I'm not sure we've ever seen before.

He's doing things that Michael Vick can't do now, physically, and that Vick wasn't astute and dedicated enough to do early in his career. Newton is a one-man army who has lifted a previously moribund offense -- one without a flicker of hope beyond the running backs for years -- into one of the most dynamic, attacking vertical units in the game.

He is having the greatest rookie quarterback season ever, by a shocking margin, and what could end up being one of the best in the history of the game for any quarterback when you look at all the metrics like running average, rushing touchdowns, etc. And he's doing it despite all the pressure and the undue criticism and the fact he had precisely one year of starting experience in big-time college football.

He is already a difference-maker, just a half-season in, and he will be a franchise changer very quickly.

Jeff Darlington:

For months during the locked-out offseason, quarterback Cam Newton's potential resonated as the polarizing discussion before and after the draft. Questions were asked -- and they've now been answered. In just nine weeks, Newton poured water on a fire that sparked out of wonder about his ability. Would he be accurate enough? Smart enough? Focused enough? Just because he answered each of those questions with a resounding "yes" doesn't mean we should dismiss his success as anything less than phenomenal.

Newton still hasn't won enough games, but he has invigorated a locker room (see: Steve Smith). I don't want to dismiss what Aaron Rodgers has done in Green Bay, but I expect his second half of 2011 to earn him plenty of attention. For now, this first half belongs to Newton, who has surpassed even the highest expectations many established for him.

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