Bearkat QB Rhett Bomar drafted by Giants
4/26/2009 9:45:00 AM | Football
It may have come a little later than expected, but Sam Houston State quarterback Rhett Bomar now knows where he will get his pro football career started. Bomar was drafted in the fifth round by the New York Giants, the 151st selection in the 2009 draft.
After three quarterbacks were taken in the first round, Bomar had to sit and wait. One more quarterback was selected ahead of him, Texas A&M's Stephen McGee to Dallas, before the Giants took Bomar.
"The scouts had very good grades on Bomar. Chris Palmer had studied him. I had watched him. Kevin (Gilbride) had watched him. There were a lot of people in the room that, when Bomar was picked, stood up and talked about the value of that individual at that time," said Giants head coach Tom Coughlin. "That's the part of the draft that kind of is unique. You sit there and you're picking at 29 or at the bottom of most rounds and you're always trying to calculate who's going to be there.
"Believe me, you don't always know how these things are going to fall. You have to make decisions based on value. We stuck with what we really believe in and that was that he was a highly rated player at that time and much more deserving to be taken than someone else," he said.
Bomar completed his college career as Sam Houston's all-time leader in passing with 5,564 yards in 19 games and career leader in total offense with 6,159 yards. He is a two-time All-Southland Conference selection and ended the 2008 season ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision total offense (354.2 yards per game) and No. 4 in passing offense (335,5 yards per contest).
Bomar passed for more than 300 yards in nine games during his Bearkat career. He threw for passes of more than 50 yards 10 times including a long of 80 yards. He is one of only 11 players in NCAA FCS history to throw for more than 300 yards and rush for more than 100 yards in a single game (against North Dakota State in 2007).
