After leading Auburn to an undefeated season and national championship in 2011, while also winning the Heisman Trophy along the way, Cam Newton will go down as a Tigers legend.

And Newton, who was taken with the first overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers, has continued to try to help the Auburn program when he can.

Newton is now with New England, and on Monday, the Patriots held a joint practice with the Philadelphia Eagles, whose roster features former Alabama and Oklahoma star quarterback Jalen Hurts.

After practice, Hurts revealed that when he opted to leave Alabama to play his final collegiate season elsewhere, that Newton reached out to him about finishing his career at Auburn.

“I know in the past, in the midst of trying to figure out where I was going to go the second time, he called me on Gus Malzahn’s behalf,” Hurts told 247Sports writer Nick Kosko.

Of course, Hurts ultimately transferred to Oklahoma, which proved to be a good decision, as he passed for 3,851 yards and 32 touchdowns, while also piling up nearly 1,300 yards and 20 touchdowns on the ground. He was then selected by the Eagles in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

As for Newton, while his pitch to get Hurts to The Plains was unsuccessful, he still thinks highly of the young quarterback.

“Hurts is a bro,” Newton told Kosko after the joint practice. “Jalen is a person that I followed all through college. For me to see him out here today, man, it’s just love and always gonna be love.”