While it’s true nobody really knows the kind of season he’ll finish with or the kind of career he’ll put together, it’s not like we don’t have any clues.

“He’s very smart and he processes pretty quick,” began Sooner offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson, before launching into the story of Bradford’s last touchdown pass against Miami, the one that went to Dane Zaslaw, because the play was designed to go to Malcolm Kelly.

“He goes to the check down, which is exactly what he’s supposed to do,” Wilson said, “and we didn’t even really practice that look … They guessed it and played high coverage. So here’s Sam, this young guy, saying, ‘I’ve got to take what they give me,’ and he makes a nice little throw … It’s really neat that he’s got the intelligence to process that so quickly because most young guys don’t.”

So he’s got something. Some intangible. Something nobody could have seen working at the collegiate level so well, so fast.

Look at it this way:

Rhett Bomar was the No. 1 high school quarterback in the nation according to everybody coming out of Grand Prairie, Texas, in 2004. Bradford, coming out of Putnam City North in 2006, was No. 17 by everybody. He was the No. 6 guy in the state at any position and there are years the Sooners have no interest in the No. 6 guy in the state.

But who would you rather have now?

Who would even go back in time and teach Bomar some sense?

Nobody in the Sooner Nation in their right mind, that’s who.

It’s worked out too well.

Zaslaw doesn’t know what it is about his quarterback, just that it’s something.

“He looks like he was born to do it and it’s a great thing to have him out on the field leading us right now,” he said. “He’s making plays like he’s a fifth-year senior. It’s awesome to watch a kid that young making those kind of plays, breaking records.”

More awesome may be contemplating what’s yet to come.

No, nobody thought he’d be this good.

But does anybody see him getting worse?