The official Mizzou Football account tweeted something Auburn fans wish they never saw on Monday: Cam Newton rocking Missouri gear while at fall camp in Columbia. While Newton was present at Alex Golesh's spring practices, where he gave words of wisdom to transfer quarterback Byrum Brown, he hasn't yet appeared at fall camp on the Plains.
Newton was at Mizzou to see receiver Cayden Lee, a fellow Georgia native whom Newton mentors, who transferred to Missouri from Ole Miss this past offseason. The 2010 Heisman winner also has connections to Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz and RB coach Curtis Luper, who were both on Auburn's national championship team's coaching staff.
Missouri wasn't in the SEC when Newton was executing Gus Malzahn's play-calling on Gene Chizik's national championship team. Those Tigers joined the conference in 2012, when Newton was already a year into his NFL career with the Carolina Panthers. There's no personal history between Newton and Mizzou.
Still, Auburn and Missouri famously battled for the 2013 SEC Championship. Mizzou got the better of the past two matchups in 2024 and 2025, and the past three matchups were all decided by one score. No Auburn fan wants to see the greatest player in program history don another school's colors. Especially one in the SEC.
Auburn must put Cam Newton on its payroll at some point
If Newton wants to wear Missouri's colors to support one of his mentees, he's got every right to. It's not until he denounces his alma mater that there should be any concern about what he's doing. With that said, there's an easy answer to the question of how to get him to rep only orange and blue: put Newton on Auburn's payroll.
Newton should be an ambassador to AU athletics just like active ambassador Bruce Pearl, and paid similarly, if not even more. After all, Cam actually won a national championship. Newton was working with more, absolutely, but there is no replicating getting to the top. In 2010, Auburn was on top of the sports world. In 2019 and 2025, Pearl's teams were in the Final Four but fell short. Then, Pearl got his son the head coaching job and now still gets paid over a year after retiring.
Why can't the athletics department pay a player who left it all on the field and brought back the greatest season the university has ever seen in either of the two major revenue sports? The return on investment doesn't get greater than Newton's one-and-done campaign in Lee County, Alabama.
Whoever has the power to make it happen, make Auburn University Special Assistant to the Athletics Director Cam Newton happen.
Otherwise, Newton doesn't need to hear a thing from fans who are upset at this picture from Mizzou's fall camp.
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