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The 2011 Carolina Panthers season was the franchise’s 17th season in the National Football League and the first season for Ron Rivera as the head coach. In Week 16 of the 2010 season the team clinched the NFL’s worst record of the year and was given the #1 pick in the 2011 NFL Draft with which the team selected quarterback Cam Newton the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner.