With a 36-7 record at Georgia, having scored 35 points per game, including something like 31 points per game against SEC or ranked opponents, a career 156 NCAA passer efficiency rating, having ranked Top 8 in that mark in 2 of his 3 seasons at Georgia...I think we're going to have to do a better job about defining the concept of overcoming his surroundings.
Those are pretty great accomplishments and I'm not sure it really would've been possible for him to do significantly better unless he never bumped into Jim Chaney or James Coley.
It's not as if he's been throwing the ball to a bunch of great players. Riley Ridley has 6 catches in the NFL. Javon Wims has 22 catches. Terry Godwin has none. Isaac Nauta has 2 catches. Lawrence Cager wasn't invited to the Senior Bowl. Mecole Hardman is the best of them and he's really just a gifted return man for KC that had 26 catches for 538 yards and 6 TDs thanks to Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid's offense. Maybe in the end the best will be George Pickens, and that's a bit of a dubious statement because Pickens is a freshman who was still figuring out how he was supposed to run his routes and where he was supposed to be.
It's not like throwing to Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson, or Tee Higgins and Justyn Ross, CeeDee Lamb and Marquise Brown, or Jerry Jeudy and Devonta Smith.
I think from a certain point of view, Jake Fromm has overcome his surroundings quite a bit. The guys who did better, generally HAD better.
I would probably put him behind Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Burrow, and Jordan Love. But frankly it's more like Tua and then three guys I could feel good about getting in any order.