Day 2 belongs to converted QBs

? The second day of the NFL draft was “slash” day.

As in Michael Robinson, qb/rb; Brad Smith, qb/wr; Marques Hagans, qb/wr/kick returner; Reggie McNeal, qb/wr, AND …

Jeremy Bloom, skier/kick returner/wr.

Such is the way on most Sundays at the draft when teams look for bargains in skill players who are either too small, too slow, or deemed not fit for the NFL at the position at which they starred in college.

Thus it was with Robinson, who was the Big Ten offensive MVP as he quarterbacked Penn State to the league title. He was chosen by San Francisco with the third pick of the fourth round and designated as a running back, one of the positions he played (along with wide receiver) before becoming a full-time QB in his final year in Happy Valley.

Three picks later, the New York Jets took Smith, a quarterback at Missouri who was projected as a wide receiver. Then in the fifth round, Hagans, Virginia’s QB, was taken by St. Louis two picks before Bloom, the Olympic moguls skier, went to Philadelphia. Bloom was chosen by the Eagles despite missing two years at Colorado after being ruled ineligible by the NCAA for accepting endorsements for his skiing career.

McNeal went in the sixth round to Cincinnati.

Before the draft, Robinson called it “a misconception” that he wanted to be a QB in the NFL. But Smith made no secret of his desire to stay there.

He said the right things after the Jets chose him, although he acknowledged: “I’m a quarterback at heart.”

“I’m coming as a team player and athlete,” he added. “Hopefully I get to play running back or quarterback as well as other positions. … The Jets have honored me with the selection by picking me and saying I can help the team out.”

Smith almost was a Ram. But coach Scott Linehan said he got the impression after talking to Smith that he still wanted to be a QB. So Linehan used a fifth-round pick on Hagans and will have him return kicks.

Bloom also will begin his career returning kicks.

“I went into this thing thinking I would not get drafted and do it through free agency,” Bloom said.