Mulling Over Sam Bradford’s Impressive Collegiate Legacy

Yahoo!‘s always-excellent Dr. Saturday has a post mulling over Bradford’s pro prospects and college legacy, and the verdict is extremely favorable.

But we should leave the dissection of his future to the gurus paid to cut campus heroes down to size. As an amateur, Bradford’s place in the pantheon is secure. He led the nation with absurd pass efficiency totals in consecutive seasons, and the up-tempo blitzkrieg he captained in ‘08 rewrote the book on relentless offensive assault from ground and air — it may be decades before we see that team’s five-game run with at least 60 points matched by anyone, much less its mark for points in a season. Ad Bradford was the loping, shaggy, slightly goofy engine that made the doomsday machine run on every significant snap. “Pawn” or not, his towering production on the stat sheet and in the win column places him easily among the greatest college quarterbacks of this decade or any other.