Kirk Herbstreit defends Jake Fromm's 2019 season ahead of 2020 NFL Draft
Ahead of the 2020 NFL Draft, Georgia QB Jake Fromm has seen his stock drop. Now, he’s being viewed as a late-Day 2 or early Day 3 prospect by many analysts.
However, ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit still believes in Fromm, saying the Bulldogs’ offensive struggles last season weren’t all Fromm’s fault.
During a conference call on Monday, Herbstreit said the drop in play at receiver and other play-calling misadventures contributed to the Georgia struggles (via DawgNation):
“Whoever gets him is going to get a gym rat type of guy, and a guy that can do some exciting things,” Herbstreit said on ESPN’s NFL draft conference call on Monday. “I’m a huge fan of his. I know that last year didn’t go the way fans wanted, and I know that the quarterback gets too much credit, and a lot of times gets too much blame.
“They didn’t necessarily have the receiver play they had the past two years when he was a freshman and sophomore, they weren’t able to get the ball downfield in this offense, and I think eventually it caught up with them.”
Where will Fromm end up? We might have to wait until Friday or Saturday to find out, but whoever takes him will be getting a guy who can play at the next level, according to Herbstreit.
Losing all those receivers was absolutely the source of the problem.
I often wonder how things would have turned out if JJ Holloman didn’t get the boot.
And Cager hadn’t been hurt.
First off… I like Fromm and think he will do just fine in the NFL. I do find many of the statements about different QBs contradict each other. Tua is a system QB who benefited from great receivers. Fromm wasn’t as good but that was because his receivers weren’t as good as last years but he is still great. Burrows only has 1 great year with a loaded class on offense with a new system yet he is awesome.
Lol. Stop there. Dont even bring up Burrow when discussing Fromm. Fromm couldnt hit a broadside of a bard and is completely immobile
Barn not bard
I think the comment is comparing the talking points that surround each QB and not an actual comparison of the QBs.
While I will admit that Fromm struggled to place the ball anywhere past 30 yards, I will also say that if you gave Burrow the receivers that Fromm had after Cager went down and before Pickens really emerged, Burrow’s season would have been a little different. When Fromm would throw a 50-50 ball, it was truly a 50-50 ball when it was to Simmons, Landers (maybe more like 20-80 for him), or Robertson. When Burrow was running around for 7 seconds and then throwing a ball up on the run to Chase, Jefferson, or Marshall, it was a 99-1 ball. I’m not saying Fromm would have been the Same as Burrow if you had given him better WRs, but he would have looked a lot better than he did with the ones he had.
Fromm will do ok even if he spends his career as a back up. But heck, getting paid to hold a clipboard aint so bad. Fromm’s problem was his RB’s wasnt producing other than Swift. When Michele and Chubb was there, you had to defend the run and the pass. If Swift was out or was hurt, Jawja wasnt really a threat of running the football. Plus Crager was their only big time threat at WR. Tight end was a nonfactor as well, unlike previous years. Which is odd considering all the so called talent jawja has. Look at Bama. They just reload. If someone goes down, it seems the guy right behind him is just as good. Jawja with all that 5 star talent, really didnt have that. Thats why Bama and Nick the prick is so good. Ole Nicky knows how to develop and get the most out of his talent. Not so much with Kirby.
If I was an NFL GM I’d draft Jake Fromm in the 2nd round before I’d take Tua in the first. Tua probably won’t play more than 10 or 12 games a year and have a short career. Not that I don’t think he’s a good kid but if he got hurt that much in college with the top college talent protecting him how is he going to last in the NFL?
Listen, I love Fromm as much as the next guy, but this isn’t where it’s at. I think Fromm is going to surprise a lot of people as an NFL QB. I think the game he plays translates very well to the direction and style that the NFL is playing. But I think Tua is so much better when healthy, you that you take that risk. there’s really no scientific reasoning behind someone being “injury prone”. It’s really just bad luck. The only cases in which you can make a determinative conclusion about future prospects of a player’s availability is if a prior injury causes degenerative damage to the player’s body, similar to what we’ve seen with Todd Gurley. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Tua.
I think there’s a decent chance Tua will be a bust with or without injury.
I’m not with you on that one. He has elite arm talent and runs through reads pretty fast. the only knock I have on his actual game was when he would hold the ball too long while waiting for an off-script 70 yard bomb to develop. He had some license to do that at Bama but he won’t in the NFL.