Patriots Star Addresses Cam Newton Future In New England Patriots

The New England Patriots missed the playoffs in 2020. Head coach Bill Belichick didn’t have success in his first Tom Brady-less season. Veteran quarterback Cam Newton joined the team, but his future with the Patriots is hanging in the air now. He failed to lead the Patriots to the Super Bowl. Will Newton return to New England in 2021?

Patriots defensive back Devin McCourty talked about this during his “Double Coverage” podcast. The veteran is all-in when it comes to having Newton back on the field in 2021.

“I wouldn’t mind a lot of these guys quarterbacking my team. I’ll start off by saying I wouldn’t mind seeing my guy Cam Newton come back,” McCourty said. “I thought he had a tough [situation] coming in — no offseason, no anything. [He] played in a Super Bowl and won a MVP.”

Cam Newton has yet to decide on his future with the Patriots

Newton signed a one-year deal with the Patriots and started 15 games this past season. He missed one game due to his struggle with COVID-19.

In 2020, the 2015 NFL MVP passed for 2,657 yards, eight touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Newton had 592 rushing yards and 12 scores. The Patriots finished the season with a 7-9 record, and it’s the first terrible record in 20 years.

Pretty much everything points to the fact that the Patriots will bring in someone else. Newton turns 32 in May and Belichick has Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer.

“To me, I think they will be more of a mid-tier team that will try its luck in the draft, so meaning mid-tier free agent — a [Marcus] Mariota, a [Jacoby] Brissett, whoever they deem worth chasing and securing and then to play it in the draft,” NBC Sports Boston’s Tom E. Curran reported. “That’s the hardest thing about this — do you force it in the first round with a Mac Jones or a Kyle Trask, who certainly don’t seem to me to be first-round quarterbacks? Or do you say, ‘we’re going to take that good linebacker and see if Trask or Jones if we take them in the second round are players we can develop, or somebody else?’”