Howard had missed so much practice time over the summer, complaining of an ankle injury, that the coaches simply gave Dillard, a second-year man, the job.

Only the second-year men Neil and Nalen are under 30.

The second-year man from Boston College has never played for the Jets when it mattered.

And a second-year man, Willie Beamon, will now get a shot at the left side with Sparks on the sidelines.

A second-year man said audibly, "What do you expect of the Comyn?

And yet Manning threw for nearly five thousand yards in a season in which his top receiver was Victor Cruz, an undrafted second-year man.

Richie Anderson, a second-year man out of Penn State, will make his first start.

And it's not as if Collins, who played in two 1996 playoff games for the Carolina Panthers as a second-year man himself, is Joe Montana.

A heavy part of the burden for stopping Favre and Company will fall on the second-year man from Michigan.

With Thomas Lewis out, there is a new starter at split end, the second-year man Kevin Alexander.