Loyalty is often a one-way street. Especially for a franchise quarterback like Cam Newton. But it’s a lesson he was forced to learn twice with the Carolina Panthers . His career has been a tale of two choices. One that the Panthers made for him, and another that he was forced to make when they asked him to come back on their terms.

“Right when my last second round in Carolina, I didn’t know what was going to happen with my career. I was in such a different phase where I knew I was out of the franchise quarterback phase,” Newton said on the Funky Friday Podcast .

“Franchise quarterback gets priority. A quarterback is secondary if that. It’s like, you’re disposable. There were people in my circle that was like, ‘Yo, take it.’ Like, take the deal. ‘You ain’t going to make that this ty

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