Because she makes every single rookie error in the book.
Newton has made a place for himself in the N.F.L. record book with rookie marks for passing yards in a game and a season and an N.F.L. record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback.
But May has also come a long way from the very first time she competed as a junior handler at 9 years old, when she showed another Australian shepherd at a 4H show — and made every rookie mistake in the book.
He spent the off-season helping tinker with the Ravens lineup, speaking to corporations and at the league's rookie symposium, finishing his book on leadership principles, visiting potential colleges for his daughter and spending some time on the Delaware shore.
For the past two years, he has been building relationships with each of his players - a dinner for two here, a daily phone call there, three nights spent at Victor Dubuisson's house when everyone else was claiming the French rookie was a closed book written in another language.
It evolved into the online magazine Rookie, and later two books, "Rookie Yearbook One" and "Rookie Yearbook Two". Now 17, Gevinson, who was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times, has a new book deal.
Intriguingly, the only equally praised book-rookie of the same period - Donna Tartt, with The Secret History - has also waited until late this year to get to second base.
Two weeks before the draft, Keyshawn Johnson's book about his rookie season had come out, angering his teammates.
As training camp began, Johnson's book on his rookie 1996 season, "Just Give Me the Damn Ball!," stung his Jets teammates, particularly Wayne Chrebet, the wide receiver he belittled as the "team mascot".
