The Fromm — as in Jake Fromm, the freshman quarterback for the No. Just the way he prefers his burgers, his folks told Amy Dean when she launched this savory tribute. Only 19, with all of six-and-three-quarters games of college experience behind him, Fromm already is becoming something more than just another hometown-kid-made-good in this football-mad slice of Middle Georgia.
As the Bulldogs creep up the rankings — their profile and their ambitions going national — the quarterback who stepped in when Jacob Eason hurt his knee in the first quarter of the first game and Wally-Pipped the poor incumbent is attracting notice and praise in bulk.
As quarterbacks tend to do. It has come as no surprise hereabouts that Fromm stepped in so ably for Eason that he now appears impossible to dislodge. Until further notice, it is Fromm Here to Eternity for the Bulldogs. Teammates rave about his football intellect and leadership. He had his first yard passing game last week against Missouri. Ready from the first instant Eason sprained his knee and the freshman hustled into his helmet to finish off Appalachian State.
If not born ready, certainly made ready by an upbringing that emphasized the keenest kind of competition one can find at an early age.
He had in front of tens of thousands in Williamsport, and in front of only slightly more intimate gatherings here, where high school football is bound genetically to the community. Never had the stage seemed too large. Grasping the intricacies of any offense was never going to be an issue, his former offensive coordinator at Houston County High knew. There is no talking to Fromm now, as Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart keeps him and all the freshmen sequestered from the media. Which is a shame.
