Auburn legend ‘not a fool’ and has firm grasp on playing future
Auburn football legend Cam Newton is “not a fool” according to Cat Crave’s Dean Jones (and probably his accountant) and has a firm grasp on his playing future — whether or not he even has one.
“Newton is not a fool,” Jones prefaced before saying, “He knows the direction this is going and said all the right things, but the No. 1 overall selection in the 2011 NFL Draft seems content without the daily football grind, which is always the biggest battle for those transitioning away from the game that consumed them for so long.”
As Jones notes, Newton has successful businesses in Atlanta, including a restaurant called Fellaship; which is around the corner from his new planned location, The N Zone, which will be located at 51 Elliott Street SW, right by Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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Newton isn’t planning on taking any NFL job, planning to pass up any NY Jets’ opportunity that’d become available in the wake of Aaron Rodgers tearing his achilles tendon and Zach Wilson failing to inspire in his absence.
“You not ’bout to sit up here and penny-pinch me, bro,” Newton said (h/t USA Today Sports). “I’m not ’bout to sit up here and sign no $5.5 million deal, bro. Those days are over with. I’ll be wastin’ my time. I have seven beautiful children that I love takin’ to football practice, tennis practice, cheerin’ practice and all that. To get me up out takin’ them on a day-to-day basis, takin’ them to school—those are some of the things that you have to consider. And if the call doesn’t happen, still cool. I’m still straight. I have businesses and things like that that can feed that monster. I will tell you—if you don’t think I could be on a roster right now, I could. But it’s bigger than that to me.”
Newton’s return will come when the time is right, and it certainly doesn’t seem to be right now. And perhaps it never will be.
That possibility doesn’t seem to be one that’d rattle the former Heisman winner and NFL MVP anyway.