How will Georgia adjust to life without Jake Fromm?

After three years at the University of Georgia, quarterback Jake Fromm has decided to enter the 2020 NFL Draft. How will Georgia adjust to life without him?

It’s the end of an era for the Georgia Bulldogs. Starting quarterback Jake Fromm has decided to leave school a year early and enter the 2020 NFL Draft. Fromm was projected to be a top-10 pick before the start of his junior season. However, his draft stock dipped a bit due to inconsistencies in the Georgia passing game due to so many receivers from the 2018 team going pro.

Fromm tweeted out his decision on Wednesday afternoon, a full week after his last game with Georgia, as the Dawgs defeated the Baylor Bears in the 2020 Allstate Sugar Bowl. In three years at Georgia, Fromm won the SEC East three times, made 42 starts, went 35-7 as a starter, completed 63.3 percent of his passes for 8,236 yards, 78 touchdowns and 18 interceptions.

Many in Dawg Nation thought Fromm would return to Athens for his senior season with so many of his teammates opting to come back in 2020, especially on the defensive side of the ball. But with Fromm being a fringe first-round pick, his decision to go pro after three years’ worth of SEC starts is totally understandable. So where does Georgia go from here?

On its roster heading into 2020, the only quarterback who has seen any action is Stetson Bennett. Most of his snaps last season came against teams the Murray State Racers and the Arkansas State Red Wolves. Though he’s the most seasoned quarterback in the room for Georgia, Dawg Nation can’t be overly excited about his prospects as a starter in 2020.

Georgia also has two freshman quarterbacks to work with this spring. D’Wan Mathis essentially replaced Justin Fields on the Georgia roster, as he switched his commitment from the Ohio State Buckeyes to the Dawgs after Fields entered the transfer portal last offseason. Mathis didn’t play at all as a true freshman, so Georgia has four years of eligibility to work with if he is the guy.

The other freshman of note on Georgia’s quarterbacking depth chart is Carson Beck, a four-star, early enrollee out of Jacksonville, Florida. Like Fromm, he’s a pure pocket passer. So that could make for a seamless transition from one pro-style signal-caller to another. That being said, it’s so hard for a true freshman to win the starting job out of camp. However, enrolling early helps him.

Outside of what Georgia already has in Bennett, Mathis and Beck, Georgia has to be a program that seriously explores the transfer portal. The Dawgs have an elite defense with so many talented players returning like safety Richard LeCounte III and linebacker Monty Rice. Georgia also has a bevy of talented running backs in the form of Zamir White and James Cook, among others.

The Bulldogs also have an elite sophomore receiver in George Pickens and landed a five-star tight end after the All-American Game in Darnell Washington, who could command playing time right away. For that reason, Georgia seems to be a marquee destination for a quarterback entering the transfer portal. So who could be looking at Georgia like Greyson Lambert did a few years ago?

247 Sports list several intriguing possibilities for Georgia on the quarterbacking market. K.J. Costello (Stanford), Jamie Newman (Wake Forest), Feleipe Franks (Florida) and Anthony Brown (Boston College) have all opted to transfer after 2019.

Costello is probably the best pro-prospect, Newman seems like a potential target, Georgia knows all about Franks from his time in Gainesville and Brown may be a possibility as well. There are also two other names to watch as well: D’Eriq King (Houston) and Chase Brice (Clemson).

King opted to sit out the final two-thirds of his senior year at Houston to save his eligibility in a down year for the Cougars. He’s been tied to Georgia for a while now, especially if Fromm left. Brice is another interesting name to keep an eye on. He is a Georgia native and a really good quarterback. The only problem is he’s blocked at Clemson by Trevor Lawrence and rarely plays.

Ultimately, Georgia has a huge decision to make to replace Fromm. If he returned, then Georgia had to be a favorite to contend for the 2020 National Championship. But now that Fromm has opted to go pro, the entire Georgia offense looks a tad murkier. We know the defense will be good and the ground game should be fine, but replacing Fromm will tell the tale of how its 2020 goes.

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