Georgia 5-star QB Jacob Eason reportedly expected to transfer to Washington
UGA has a crowded QB depth chart.
Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason is expected to transfer to Washington “barring a last-minute change of heart,” the Seattle Times reported Tuesday.
The sophomore was Georgia’s backup for almost the entire 2017 season, which ended in a National Championship loss to Alabama on Monday. Eason is a former five-star recruit and was the No. 2 quarterback prospect in the class of 2016. (The only guy rated ahead of him, Shea Patterson, recently announced a transfer from Ole Miss to Michigan.)
That Eason would transfer to Washington makes sense on the surface, as he hails from Lake Stevens, not far north of Seattle. That he’d transfer from Georgia makes sense, too.
Eason started the year as Georgia’s top quarterback after seizing that job as a true freshman. He was injured in a Week 1 win over Appalachian State, though, and never got his job back. Four-star freshman Jake Fromm took the job and led the Dawgs to an SEC Championship, a Rose Bowl win, and within a hair of a national title.
Georgia signed the best dual-threat QB prospect in the country for 2018, in-state product Justin Fields. It’s never felt likely that Georgia would go into the year with three quarterbacks as touted as Eason, Fromm, and Fields. None of those players is the kind of talent who’s meant to be buried on a depth chart.
Eason was a Mark Richt recruit who stuck with Georgia after the Dawgs fired Richt and replaced him with Kirby Smart. Richt famously urged Eason to stick with his Georgia commitment after the coach’s firing, rather than try to bring him to Miami with him.