The Panthers will start Cam Newton in week 11 against Washington in their second game back with the team

Cam Newton will start in the Carolina Panthers in their 11-week match against the Washington Football Team, head coach Matt Rhule announced Friday. Newton will only make his first start in Carolina in his second match with the team that signed him a few days after Sam Darnold was placed on the injured reserve due to a shoulder injury.

Newton had a limited game package on his return to the Panthers, but threw and rushed to the finish in Carolina’s victory over the Arizona Cardinals. He finished 3 against 4 in eight yards on nine starting passes and ran 14 yards three times. He recorded his 43rd game pass and rush to the touchdown, the most in NFL history. Newton also continued to record the most busy touchdowns of all time with the quarterback (71). He is second only to Michael Vick (6,109) in quarterback (5,412). Newton also became the first quarterback in the last 30 years to run into the touchdown with his first peak of the season and threw the touchdown with his first pass of the season.

Newton moved from the Panthers to the Super Bowl in nine years in Carolina. He won the 2015 NFL MVP Award and led the organization to the Super Bowl 50. Newton has thrown 29,049 yards and 183 touchdowns during his career in Carolina, both the most in the game. franchising history. He is also third on the Panthers ’all-time rush list (4,820), and his 59 rushes are the highest in franchise history.

This is Newton’s first start in the Panthers since September 12, 2019 (the 2nd week of the message season), when Carolina fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20-14. He faces his former head coach Ron Rivera, who coaches Newton for nine seasons, during which Newton won the 2015 NFL MVP Award and led the Panthers Super Bowl 50 in the same season.

“I think it’s an opportunity for him to come home and continue where he started,” Rivera said earlier this week in the weekly press. “It’s kind of a neat deal.”