We Hardly Knew Ye: This time, Sam Bradford is out

Many, many Heisman winners have left school in and obscurity through the years, but now that he's officially declared for the draft following season-ending shoulder surgery, as expected, it's safe to say none have gone out with quite the whimper of Oklahoma's Sam Bradford. It's a testament to his short-lived star and talent, in fact, that Bradford can miss essentially all of his final season -- he attempted passes in about a game-and-a-half's worth of action between dual shoulder injuries -- and still be projected as a first-round pick. The questions about Bradford from this point will be legion: He's not mobile; he rarely showed a flame-throwing deep ball a la Matt Stafford or JaMarcus Russell; he now qualifies as an injury risk after being knocked out twice in a little over a month; he comes from a "spread" system at a school that has never produced an NFL quarterback (no Oklahoma QB has ever taken a snap at the next level); and maybe most impor...