Pittsburgh Steelers at New Meadowlands Stadium

The backup Jim Sorgi will miss two to three weeks with a tear in the capsule of his throwing shoulder after a hit he sustained Monday in a preseason game, his agent, Matt Brei, said Thursday in a telephone interview.

Brei did not know the severity of the tear. He said it was not related to the partly torn labrum that forced Sorgi onto injured reserve last season with the Indianapolis Colts. Sorgi was here Thursday and wore a helmet, but he did not participate.

Sorgi sustained the injury on a big hit from Jets linebacker Lance Laury moments after he delivered his second touchdown pass to Victor Cruz in the Giants' 31-16 win at New Meadowlands Stadium.

Manning, who required 12 stitches to close a bloody gash on his forehead after being hit in Monday's game, will be unable to play against the wholesale Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys on Saturday. His timetable is uncertain. He took snaps Thursday wearing a baseball cap, but he did not face a defense.

Quarterback Rhett Bomar needed a minute to contemplate the question: Did he remember the last game he started?

"The last game I played?" Bomar said. "It was the last game of college. It was November of ... 2008?

He added, "I think it was against Texas State."

Bomar will make his next start on Saturday when the Giants take on the cheap  Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys at New Meadowlands Stadium. Bomar will at least temporarily step into the main role with Eli Manning and the backup Jim Sorgi out.

"I wouldn't call it a lucky break," Bomar said. "It's a great opportunity, is the way I see it. It's fun. I'm looking forward to it, no doubt about that."

Dominic Randolph, a rookie free agent out of Holy Cross, joined the Giants in training camp Thursday to help shore up their depth at the position. The Giants may also look to safety Antrel Rolle, who took snaps out of the Wildcat while playing for the Arizona Cardinals, to see some action under center. GIANTS' PHILLIPS TO RETURN After missing almost all of last season with a knee injury and being limited in training camp after surgery, safety Kenny Phillips will return to live action against the Steelers.

Coach Tom Coughlin indicated that Phillips's time on the field might be limited. Coughlin said Phillips proved he was ready during practices.

 Percy Harvin experienced the scariest episode yet in a career plagued by migraine headaches when he collapsed at a Minnesota Vikings practice in Eden Prairie, Minn., and was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

Coach Brad Childress left team headquarters after practice and spent the rest of the afternoon at the hospital with Harvin.

"Percy appreciates everyone's concern," Childress said in a statement posted on the team Web site. "He is alert and resting comfortably, but will remain in the hospital overnight."

Harvin, who has dealt with migraines most of his life, returned to the field Monday after missing more than two weeks, but at the beginning of Thursday's workout he experienced another episode that was scary enough for the Vikings to halt practice while he received medical attention.

"To see a guy go down, it's never a good thing," defensive end Ray Edwards said. Childress said that Harvin's episode was triggered when he looked up into a mostly cloudy sky to field a punt during a special-teams drill. Harvin went inside to see the team physician, Dr. Sheldon Burns, then came back out to the field. Soon after, Harvin was doubled over and trembling. Players and coaches stood in front of him to shield him while reporters watched from a distance as Harvin was treated.

Leftwich is the lightest he has ever been, the happiest he has ever been, and the most complete man he has ever been. He'll likely start the season as the quarterback of the wholesale Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys some 6½ months after he became a father.

 Dominic Leftwich waits for his father in a stroller at one end of the practice field. Leftwich joins him and soon a group of Steelers players gather around the Leftwich family. Everyone takes a turn holding Dominic. Dad beams.

"I've been in this league a long time now," the eighth-year player says. "This is the first place where you feel like family. This is where I want to spend the rest of my career. That's what I mean by football paradise. This is football paradise. There is no B.S. here like other places. People tell you the truth here. They don't lie to you. I don't ever want to leave."

And by "other places" Leftwich means the team that drafted him, the Jacksonville Jaguars, who released him in 2006.

"The Jaguars really f----- up that situation," he said. "We had a good group of players and the team let them all go. They let us all go. If they had been more patient, we could've done big things in Jacksonville."

Leftwich steals a deep breath and takes in the scene. Next to him is his son but all around him is his new baby: the cheap Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys.

Publicly, the Steelers maintain Dennis Dixon could win the starting quarterback job as the team waits for Ben Roethlisberger to serve his minimum four-game suspension for being a grotesque cad.

Privately is a different matter. The Steelers like Dixon's raw abilities but don't think he's ready to start (Dixon still has major problems picking up the blitz). Barring some sort of dramatic turn, the starting job is Leftwich's to lose.