A Heisman Trophy sits somewhere in Sam Bradford?s house, a statue upon which Rhett Bomar refuses to dwell.
He did not watch the trophy presentation show last year when the Oklahoma quarterback was feted. Nor did he watch Bradford lead the Sooners into the BCS championship game against Florida.
Too much "What might have been"
for the Giants? rookie quarterback to consider.
Bomar was the Oklahoma quarterback as a redshirt freshman in 2005, and improved throughout his first ? and only ? season there. He was selected Most Valuable Player of the Holiday Bowl after engineering a 17-14 win over Oregon, and finished the year with 2,018 yards and 10 TDs passing.
Before his sophomore season, however, Bomar was dismissed from school for accepting pay for hours not actually worked at a local car dealership. That opened the door for Bradford to start putting together an already storied career.
Bomar, meanwhile, transferred to Division I-AA Sam Houston State, and pretty much fell off the college football radar. "I know what would have been,"
he said about the prospect of remaining the Oklahoma quarterback. "But if I kept thinking about how things might have been different, I probably would have driven myself crazy."
He put together two good seasons for Sam Houston, throwing for a school-record 5,564 yards in just 19 games, and worked his way into the NFL draft picture. The Giants selected him in the fifth round, and he participated in the two-day rookie minicamp, which ended Saturday at Giants Stadium.
Bomar shared snaps with Andre Woodson, last year?s sixth-round draft pick who spent his rookie year on the practice squad. The two promise to battle in training camp for the No. 3 spot behind Eli Manning and David Carr.
"He has worked real hard and hopefully he is going to have a very good, very competitive training camp,"
coach Tom Coughlin said of Woodson, a disappointment as a rookie.
