Roman FM?

[Atilius]

I don't think this is the case or all the FM's would be consuls, censors, ex conculs, ex censors, etc.

I'm not expressing an opinion here. I'm stating a fact. Young men of major families were much in the public eye even before they held high public office. Livy tell us (29.14) that P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, cousin of Africanus, was judged by the senate in 204 BC to be "the best of good men in the whole community", though he was too young to hold the quaestorship.