If you wanted Cam Newton, you were going to have to give the Carolina Panthers a draft pick,

and you're going to have to take on Cam Newton's $19 million salary.

It's going to be a difficult thing for a team to sign him without examining him themselves,

so it could take a while.

But I think being cut should help his market because it clears at least a couple of the hurdles

while that health hurdle still remains.

Live sports may have come to a standstill, but the NFL offseason stopped for no one, except maybe Cam Newton.

ESPN senior writer and deals professor Bill Barnwell joins the show to explain why the former MVP is still available and what other lessons we can take from a free agency period that isn't over yet.

I'm Mina Kimes. It's Thursday, April 2nd. This is ESPN Daily.

You don't remember the early shows.

Oh, buddy.

How are you holding up, Bill?

I'm good. I am living that grading life. You're good and you're busy because while most sports have come to a standstill, the NFL did not.

They have not, they will not.

Free agency not only started on time.

It was extremely active. Many deals were signed,

which means you had to grade many signings and trades. Now, Bill, you are a notoriously tough

grader. And I feel like if you were on rate my professor.com, you'd have some GMs leaving

you angry comments. I know, finally, there's a chance to

criticize me anonymously on the internet. I would never. I would never. Well, today, Bill,

you took a step back and you kind of looked at all of these signings in aggregate and wrote about

the big lessons and takeaways from

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