ATHENS, Ga. – The Georgia Bulldogs are playing the rarest back-to-back games of this Southeastern Conference football season.
Only four SEC programs have not had to change quarterbacks this year as the result of injuries. Georgia is one of the fortunate few with healthy junior Jake Fromm, and the Bulldogs are in between games against Auburn and Texas A&M.
Auburn freshman Bo Nix and Texas A&M junior Kellen Mond also have avoided the injury rash, as has LSU graduate transfer and Heisman Trophy favorite Joe Burrow.
“We do a good job of making sure that Jake gets the least amount of hits possible,” Georgia graduate transfer tight end Eli Wolf said this week. “In some offensive schemes that are catered to a dual-threat quarterback, if you leave a guy, the quarterback has to make a guy miss. Texas A&M has a dual-threat quarterback who has made some plays with his legs, and that will be a challenge for our defense.
“I just think it’s been a freak thing this year. You certainly don’t like seeing quarterbacks go down. We’ve played a lot of teams that have been relying on their backups, and a lot of those backups have been doing a good job.”