{"id":3960,"date":"2011-02-28T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2011-02-28T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:25:18","slug":"cam-newton%e2%80%99s-legs-impress-at-combine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3960","title":{"rendered":"Cam Newton\u2019s Legs Impress At Combine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 <strong>Cam Newton<\/strong> followed through on his pledge to participate in drills at the NFL scouting combine on Sunday, and he won mixed reactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newton<\/strong> turned scouts\u2019 heads when he ran the 40 yard dash in 4.59 seconds, which tied Washington\u2019s <strong>Jake Locker<\/strong> for the third-fastest time among quarterbacks, tied for the best broad jump at 10 feet, 6 inches and had a 35-inch vertical jump.<\/p>\n<p>But the Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn struggled with his accuracy in the throwing drills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newton<\/strong>, who worked with unfamiliar receivers in his throwing drills, flouted the advice a lot of agents advise their quarterbacks: to skip the passing portion of the combine and save those drills for campus workouts with receivers they know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newton<\/strong> completed 11 of his 21 throwing attempts. His ball sailed on 10-yard out patterns, 15-yard ins and fly patterns. He threw with pinpoint accuracy on all three of his 12-yard hooks, and completed two of three Z-out passes.<\/p>\n<p>After watching<strong> Newton\u2019s<\/strong> display, retired quarterback and ESPN analyst <strong>Trent Dilfer<\/strong> remarked, \u201cThe ceiling is so astronomically high for this player, <strong>Cam<\/strong> <strong>Newton<\/strong>, that the scouts, the GMs, the coaches are really going to be slobbering about the prospects of having him on their team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Cam Newton followed through on his pledge to participate in drills at the NFL scouting combine on Sunday, and he won mixed reactions. Newton turned scouts\u2019 heads when he ran the 40 yard dash in 4.59 seconds, which tied Washington\u2019s Jake Locker for the third-fastest time among quarterbacks, tied for the best broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}