When Lions reserve QB Hendon Hooker was sidelined with a concussion after Detroit’s first preseason game, the team desperately needed another quarterback to throw in practice. The Lions found that man in Jake Fromm, and signed the 2020 fifth-round pick out of Georgia to a one-year, minimum salary contract.
In short, Fromm was brought in to be a camp arm and insurance if Hooker’s brain injury kept him out into the second preseason game. Hooker returned, however, and since No. 2 came back, Fromm has not sniffed the practice field.
According to Lions head coach Dan Campbell, don’t expect that to change for Fromm in the Lions final exhibition game. It will be the Hooker and Sudfeld show at quarterback against the Steelers.
“That’s tough because we haven’t really gotten to see much of him,” Campbell said before Wednesday’s final full-speed practice before roster cutdowns next week. “When we brought (Fromm) in, it was dependent on when (Hendon) Hooker can or can’t come back, ‘How much can we get him?’ And so, I don’t anticipate really getting to see him.”
Fromm didn’t take a single rep in either practice during the week, or in the final practice before the Lions headed to Kansas City, the first one with Hooker cleared from the concussion protocol. In Wednesday’s scrimmage session, Fromm only ran on his own on the unused field and caught the ball for long snappers while they warmed up.
“I don’t want to say absolutely not, but I think the priority will be Hooker and I think we need to get Nate (Sudfeld) some reps and then we’ll see what’s there with Fromm,” Campbell explained.
These are the first throws from Fromm in a Lions uniform, for those craving to see the journeyman in a little bit of action in the Honolulu Blue:
The first three throws from Jake Fromm in a Lions uniform pic.twitter.com/JC7OJQWp7G
— Jeff Risdon (@JeffRisdon) August 13, 2024