His Turn at bat: WRHS QB Dylan Fromm makes first career start tonight

The

Warner Robins High School Demons will open the 2017 football season with a

preseason affair against Westside High School at McConnell-Talbert Stadium next

Friday and not only will the local football fans and alums be itching to see

what the team looks like. Former Houston County High School backup quarterback

Dylan Fromm will be just as excited to get back on the field and actually get

on the field this time. According to Demons head coach Mike Chastain, Fromm is

going to make his first career high school start on Friday night. “I’m excited,

I can’t wait to be out there,” said Fromm by phone Thursday night.

“He’s

had a good summer and we had some good competition at quarterback,” says

Chastain. “We’re excited about seeing what [Dylan] Fromm is going to do

[tonight] and on into the season.”

As

the backup for all region, U.S. Army All-American selection and older brother

Jake Fromm, the 6’0”, 190-pound junior didn’t have many opportunities to play

very much last season. Fromm’s total numbers from last season: 2-4 for nine

yards without a touchdown (or an interception). He also rushed for 18 yards on

five attempts.

Fromm,

a traditional pocket quarterback, will have less attempts to add to his rushing

stats (his brother ran for 363 yards and four touchdowns last year), but he

will get to run, what is on paper at least, a high octane offense with former

Bears teammates: twin brother Tyler at receiver (who recently received an offer

from Troy University) and senior running back Jaeven West to go along with

returnees junior running back Jarius Burnett and junior receiver Juwight

Hutchinson, who has recently received interest from a Division II program. “I

want to go out there and prove a point that we’re not the same team from last

year,” says Fromm. Asked if he has enough weapons to get the job done this

season he answered, “I have more have more than enough.”

His

father agrees. “There might be five, six Division I players on this team,” says Emerson Fromm. “Dylan has a very good team to play with. This is a blue collar team and all they want to

do is work.”

On

Friday night, the Demons will hit the field in preparation for their Aug. 18

matchup with rival Northside High School. Dylan Fromm will be called under

center to be the starting quarterback. Is he ready for what’s to come?

“In

my opinion, Dylan has a more accurate arm at this stage than Jake had,” says

Lee.

That

remains to be seen.

“I

waited two years behind Jake and I’m just excited and I can’t wait,” says

Fromm. Warner Robins and Westside are scheduled to kickoff at 7:30 p.m.

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