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Former Georgia QB Jake Fromm signs with Bills — contract details here

Former Georgia football QB and 2020 NFL Draft pick Jake Fromm signed his rookie contract with the Buffalo Bills. Here are the details…

Former Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm signed his rookie deal on Friday with the Buffalo Bills.

According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, it’s a four-year contract worth $3.7 million total, $899,490 guaranteed with a $302,960 signing bonus.

A pedestrian combine performance reportedly caused Fromm to slip to the fifth-round of the 2020 NFL Draft where the Buffalo Bills felt fortunate to select him with the No. 167 overall pick.

General manager Brandon Beane said that drafting Fromm was not meant to send a message to Bills starter Josh Allen, but rather to fill a “premium position” with a talented player.

Fromm will have an opportunity to compete for the backup position this off-season with fellow Bills quarterbacks Davis Webb and Matt Barkley. And as Georgia fans know well, don’t count Fromm out in a quarterback competition. He has beaten out a couple of 5-stars before and won a few games in between…

 

Bills GM Brandon Beane again explains reasoning behind Jake Fromm pick

Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Beane went into detail on why he picked Georgia football QB Jake Fromm when Josh Allen and Matt Barkley are there.

Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane has fielded a ton of questions about his selection of Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Beane made it clear that he never planned on taking Fromm, but when the Bills were on the clock and Fromm was still available, it was “too good to pass up.”

The pick came as a surprise. Buffalo already has its definite starter under center in third year pro Josh Allen, who played collegiately at Wyoming.

Behind Allen on the depth chart is Southern Cal’s Matt Barkley.

Some thought that the reason he took Fromm was to motivate Allen with a little competition. Though that will end up being the case, Beane said that drafting Fromm was not meant to send a message to his starting quarterback.

“There’s no message at all,” Beane said. “We believe in Josh.

Recently, Beane joined Pro Football Talk to again explain the thought-process behind drafting Fromm:

“He wasn’t in our plans, he really wasn’t,” Beane said. “But you set your board and if a player is sticking out especially at the quarterback, that is the premium position in all sports, and is definitely in our game. So we had a pretty good grade on Jake and he was clearly sticking out on our board, the highest player, and unless you got three guys that you are going, ‘Man, we are set for years to come,’ why would you ignore the premium position? And that is why we selected Jake, and he is a winner.”

Beane then went on to discuss what Fromm did at Georgia in terms of beating out two five-star quarterbacks in Jacob Eason and Justin Fields.

“If you look at what he did, he held off [Jacob] Eason who ended up transferring, and then he held off Justin Fields who is at Ohio State, so he has got to have something to him,” Beane explained. “He is very smart and scored very high on the Wonderlic. If he had all the measurables, if he was 6’5” with a cannon arm, this was a guy that would have been talked about a lot higher.”

Bills GM: Jake Fromm selection does not ‘send message’ to Josh Allen

Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Beane says that the selection of Georgia football QB Jake Fromm does not threaten Josh Allen’s starting spot.

In the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills selected Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm.

The pick came as a surprise. Buffalo already has its definite starter under center in third year pro Josh Allen, who played collegiately at Wyoming.

Behind Allen on the depth chart is Southern Cal’s Matt Barkley.

The selection of Fromm, a decorated collegiate quarterback who went 35-7 during his three years at Georgia, is in no way a threat to Allen, said Bills general manager Brandon Beane. He said they took Fromm because ‘he was too good to pass up.’

The Bills GM was asked about the pick again recently.

Here’s his response:

“No, there’s no message at all,” Beane said. “We believe in Josh.

“That’s been the whole goal, to add weapons. We didn’t score enough points last year and that starts with me. Giving him and [offensive coordinator] Brian Daboll as much, as many weapons as we can. Adding Fromm was just… a guy that we had on our board that we really thought had a great college career and he’s very smart. He’ll add to the competition to backup Josh, but Josh is our entrenched starter.”

Don’t expect Fromm to take Allen’s starting spot. But if Allen goes down or struggles with his game, it will be interesting to see who gets the nod between Fromm and Barkley.

“I wouldn’t have told you going into today (draft day) that he was on our radar, but we had him in a spot that you just can’t ignore and we gave him his due,” Beane said. “This guy, he’s a winner at the highest level of college. You look at all the guys that come out of the SEC … He’s got all the intangibles. He’s smart.”