Cam Newton’s father, Cecil, said his son is asymptomatic and is “roaring to go to play” with the Patriots again.
Cecil Newton, speaking in a sit-down interview with North Carolina-based ABC11 reporter Bridget Condon, said the news that his son had COVID-19 came “out of nowhere.”
“I was just taken aback by the mere fact that he said he tested positive,” the elder Newton told Condon. “We don’t know. I never asked him as to what could have possibly happened.”
He said Cam was social distancing and taking the necessary precautions before contracting the disease, and he’s done the same since he was diagnosed.