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Top QB Recruit Justin Fields Can't Wait to Compete with Jake Fromm at Georgia

One morning in late December 2017, Justin Fields wakes up, pulls up a chair in his family's home in Kennesaw, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, and reflects on all that happened the day before. On that red-letter day, the 18-year-old quarterback signed with the University of Georgia, becoming the first No. 1 overall prospect to pick the Bulldogs in the 13 years that ESPN has ranked prospects.

Fields wore a tuxedo to his signing ceremony as 100 people filled the auditorium at Harrison High School. But today, he's wearing a gray Georgia T-shirt, black shorts and a silver wristband that reads "Commit to the G.