Cam Newton had to reach the bottom ranks of football before he could succeed at the top

The overall consensus is that Cam Newton was a damn good football player. You can have opinions on his somewhat rollercoaster NFL career, but you kinda have to be a beast to be one of the few people who have won both an Hesiman trophy and an NFL MVP award. Let's forget those achievements for a second, though, to focus on Cam Newton's early rise. Because there was a time when none of that success looked remotely possible. A period where people didn’t even regard him as a quarterback. A waste of talent who found himself at the bottom ranks of football. Let’s meet those versions of Cam Newton in the Prism.