Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton will undergo surgery on Thursday to repair his throwing shoulder.
There’s nothing scheduled to fix Newton’s confidence, but that will have to addressed this offseason as well.
After a Week 17 loss at Tampa Bay, Newton said he needed a sabbatical following his worst NFL season – one that started with a battering by the Denver Broncos and ended with him playing three games with a partially torn rotator cuff.
In between, there was a concussion at Atlanta, a first-series benching in a Sunday night game at Seattle, a conversation with Roger Goodell about repeated hits to Newton’s head and lower extremities and a whole lot of incomplete passes.