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What we learned from Cam Newton’s father in The Ringer’s new ‘Cam Chronicles’ podcast

When it comes to the development of quarterback Cam Newton, his father, Cecil Newton Sr., has made it clear who is most responsible.

“I built Cam,” Newton Sr. told The Ringer’s Tyler R. Tynes in an episode of “The Cam Chronicles” podcast. “He’ll tell you I built him. Everybody else who knows me knows I built him.”

Newton Sr. is one of the prominent voices in “The Cam Chronicles,” a new, six-episode miniseries about Newton’s football career. Starting with his childhood in Westlake, Ga., the podcast documents Newton’s rise to becoming a No.