Casual fans tend to turn off the NFL draft after the first round; some will stick around for the rest of the first day, but by Day Two the draft viewership is strictly hardcore fans. However, there are plenty of diamonds in the rough as scouts and GMs mine for the next Tom Brady or Marques Colston.
Here are a few quarterbacks expected to hear their name called on the second day of the draft but who have the potential to make the team that selects them look very smart for doing so.
Rhett Bomar could have been Sam Bradford. Back in 2005 Bomar was a redshirt freshman at Oklahoma, earning honorable mention All-Conference and freshman All-American honors as well as the Holiday Bowl MVP. That offseason, however, included misdemeanor charges of alcohol possession by a minor and, worse, dismissal from the Sooners after his “no-show” job at a local car dealership came to light. Bomar transferred to Sam Houston State and sat out a season before rewriting the school record books in his two-year stay there. His performance earned him a trip to the Senior Bowl and could punch his NFL ticket as early as the third round.
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