Panthers rookie quarterback Cam Newton is keeping a low profile during the NFL lockout. "It was brought to my attention that if you take care of your number one goal, two, three, four, five -- they will be taken care of," Newton said. "My number one goal is to be a great football player." Newton's low-key experience at The IMG Academy this spring/summer is a far cry from his final season at Auburn, where he led his team to a national championship while under investigation for NCAA rules violations. "I'd wake up in the morning, cut on the TV, 'Well, Cam Newton is this.' Go on campus and read the newspaper and 'Cam Newton is that.' Put my iPod on and you're looking at people and they're looking back at you," Newton said. "But I knew none of that was going to go down in that little hour or two hours that I had on that football field. It was like I was at recess. I was like a little kid. ... My escape was football. I knew everything (else) had to wait."