Three-year starter Jake Fromm led UGA football teams which won 13, 11 and 12 games and reached the SEC championship game three years in a row, after a triple of excellent 11-1 regular seasons. He exits Georgia as perhaps the most successful quarterback in school history, looking at these standards, although the peak for team success was back in his true freshman, national runner-up, SEC championship season. Fromm did not throw a whole lot as a freshman, though, the fabled Georgia ground game pounding the way.
I have seen Fromm all over mock draft boards since the start of his junior season, from late in the first round, to well into the second round, to the third.
Sources told me his NFL stock surged highest after the SECCG of 2018, when he threw more and displayed deft touch, almost unseating Alabama in the rematch. Without an experienced receiving core in 2019 and with now-departed offensive coordinator James Coley leaning on D’Andre Swift and calling predictable plays, Fromm struggled late in the season. His NFL readiness clearly came into question, and he has never had the strongest arm. He is an excellent leader and fine young man, a tough dude, a gamer.
Getting blown out by eventual national champion LSU and taking this tough tackle had to have played into his decision not to return for a senior season, with four offensive line starters also not coming back. Fromm still had fairly good numbers when wide receiver Lawrence Cager was healthy, and he played well in the Sugar Bowl win over Baylor as wideout George Pickens finally fully came into his own and won offensive bowl MVP.
The Fromm era ended with lots of heartbreaking disappointments and some bright spots. He has the all-time completion percentage record at the University of Georgia. That is a hard stat to top, when you also look at all those wins he captained, with different key guys around him.
He may be the fourth quarterback taken, after Joe Burrows from LSU, Tua Tagoviloa from Bama and Justin Herbert from Oregon. He will probably go one QB slot ahead of his one-time UGA backup, Jacob Eason. The New England Patriots reportedly like Fromm, and he could be teamed up with my favorite Georgia player of the coach Kirby Smart era, Sony Michel.