The 2020 NFL draft quarterback crop has been sent through the spin cycle three or four times since August. Can we even count the ways?

The injury to Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa has changed the draft landscape completely.

LSU’s Joe Burrow, the possible No. 1 overall pick, has gone from Average Joe to Holy Joe seemingly overnight.

Everyone’s summer crush, Utah State’s Jordan Love, has gone from a 32-6 TD-INT ratio in 2018 to 13-14 this season.

Washington’s Jacob Eason, playing extensively for the first time since 2016 at Georgia, is no clean evaluation after an up-and-down junior season.

Oregon’s Justin Herbert might be that old blanket you can’t help but curl up with — still there, not much has changed, still as good as you remembered — after his decision to come back. He was viewed as a top-10 pick a year ago, and he’s likely going to fall in that same range five months from now.

But overall, the big-school senior crop has been disappointing, minus a few somewhat surprising developments, such as Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts, Washington State’s Anthony Gordon and one or two more farther down the food chain.

Georgia QB Jake Fromm has long been considered a candidate for the 2020 NFL draft, but that might be changing. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) More

And somewhere in the QB fog is the fascinating case of Georgia’s Jake Fromm.

Entering the season, Fromm was viewed as a high-floor prospect with some decidedly Drew Brees-ish vibes. Fromm’s poise, uncanny accuracy, big-game experience and elite intangibles were all the reasons why it was expected he would finish his junior season along the rolling-boil path he set forth on when Fromm replaced an injured Eason and led the Bulldogs to an eyelash from beating Alabama in the national title game as a true freshman two years ago.

It hasn’t exactly worked out though. And now there’s some mulling in scouting circles that Fromm might opt to come back to school in 2020.

“I could see it,” an NFL college scouting director told Yahoo Sports on Thursday night, “because there’s not as much to get physically excited about, and this class is more about the toolsy players, the one who can sling it farther and move around better than [Fromm] does. Sometimes those players who have the immeasurable stuff and lack the great traits, they get pushed to the side.

“The funny thing is that Tua isn’t all that gifted physically, and Jake doesn’t have nearly the physical concerns that [Tagovailoa] does, but it seems like [Tua] can still make it into Round 1 if he answers those health questions with some good reports on that. Jake? I don’t know if he is guaranteed to make it in.”

The director added: “There’s been a little talk [Fromm] could come back next year. We’ve not heard anything concrete on that, but yeah, I could see it.”

Why Jake Fromm might want to come back

Not all of this is the fault of Fromm, who has had a very respectable season in terms of taking care of the football — 16 TDs, three picks and only four turnover-worthy passes out of 261 attempts, per Pro Football Focus. That’s efficient. You can work with that.

But Fromm has been a victim of poor coaching, less-than-stellar wide receiver play and some injuries that have held the offense back. New offensive coordinator James Coley has been the easy mark here. When head coach Kirby Smart was asked after the stunning loss to South Carolina about the job Coley was doing in his first year of calling plays, Smart just ... didn’t answer.

“Yeah, we're definitely looking forward to Kentucky right now,” Smart said. “That's the biggest concern we've got, and we're going to focus on that.”

Well, in the Kentucky game — played in sloppy conditions — Fromm completed 9 of 12 passes for 35 yards. For a solid laugh, watch this “highlight” video of the game; it starts with the opening kickoff being fumbled around like a winter squash covered in Crisco and immediately jumps to the six-minute mark of the third quarter for the first offensive play of note:

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