Cam Newton hasn’t played a single snap for the Patriots, yet former NFL executive Mike Tannenbaum already is thinking about the quarterback’s next contract with New England.
Tannenbaum, who once served as the New York Jets’ general manager and the Miami Dolphins’ executive vice president of football operations, predicted Monday on ESPN’s “Get Up” that the “early storyline” in Foxboro this season will center around Newton’s future and whether the Patriots will lock up the QB beyond his current one-year pact.
“Mark my words,” Tannenbaum said, “in two to three weeks, the early storyline that we’ll be talking about is ‘When is Cam Newton getting that extension?