Going into the 2019 NFL season, Pro Football Focus only has Cam Newton ranked No. 16 at the quarterback position.
It sounds like inconsistency is the main reason why he ranked so low. Here’s what PFF had to say about Cam’s game in the article.
“The definition of a volatile down-to-down quarterback, Newton has ranked in the top-10 in PFF grades just twice in his career, and his 86.5 grade during his MVP campaign of 2015 is the only year in which he’s graded above 80.0. Despite that fact, Newton has the second-highest percentage of positively graded throws since entering the league in 2011, while annually ranking among the worst at avoiding negatives.”
Nobody would argue that Newton never throws a bad ball or that he couldn’t stand to be more consistent from snap to snap and week to week.
That said, our feeling has always been that PFF’s grading system does not give Newton nearly enough credit for the yards and first downs and touchdowns that he gets with his legs.
To rank him only one spot ahead of Dak Prescott and behind guys like Kirk Cousins and Jared Goff is hard to square.
For what it’s worth, we have Newton ranked No. 10 this year.
