Bills dub Jake Fromm ‘quarantine quarterback’
The Bills have showed recently that the team is going to be extra cautious with the quarterback position as the 2020 season begins under amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
This past weekend, the team didn’t get cute during roster cuts. Buffalo kept four quarterbacks between their roster and practice squad, and now one of those depth options has been dubbed the team’s “quarantined quarterback.”
The team told reporters on Wednesday that rookie quarterback Jake Fromm missed practice with “no injury.” That announcement was made via… the team’s injury report? That strange decision was clarified and described as a quarantining situation at the QB position.
Fromm is socially distancing some of his practicing as a precaution.
As football goes, the quarterback has the hardest job on the field and it’s extremely important to have a player there who knows the team’s playbook on offense. The whole operation goes through the QB. Having said that, if COVID-19 were to strike the team’s quarterback room, the Bills couldn’t really just call up any old guy off the street to play.
So that idea is, Fromm will kind of “work from home” while Josh Allen, Matt Barkley and practice squad quarterback Davis Webb workout from the team’s facility.
Putting Fromm in this position could make more sense than doing so with Webb because the veteran has been described as more of a quarterback coach than backup at this point. Having his eyes, in person, with Allen, could be of importance to Sean McDermott and the rest of Buffalo’s coaching staff.
The Bills used a fifth-round pick on Fromm at the recent draft.
