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Brock Purdy Finishes 14th in NFL.com's 2024 Quarterback Power Rankings

By almost all accounts, Brock Purdy didn't have a good season in 2024.
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Dec 22, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) looks for a passing option against the Miami Dolphins during the first quarter at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images
Dec 22, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) looks for a passing option against the Miami Dolphins during the first quarter at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images | Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

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By almost all accounts, Brock Purdy didn't have a good season in 2024.

He ranked 7th in QBR, a statistic no one knows how to calculate, but he also ranked 17th in completion percentage and 13th in passer rating. Plus only three quarterbacks threw more interceptions than he did.

That's why The NFL Network ranks Purdy 14th among NFL quarterbacks for 2024.

"It's difficult to evaluate Purdy's season fairly because of the many injuries the 49ers suffered on both sides of the ball," writes NFL.com analyst Nick Shook. "They played almost the entire season without Christian McCaffrey, lost Brandon Aiyuk to injury in October and spent a considerable stretch without 11-time Pro Bowler Trent Williams, just to name a few.

"Still, Purdy was asked to keep the 49ers in games in which their defense, also without multiple contributors, struggled. When Purdy was on, he was on, lighting up defenses seemingly with ease. When things got particularly tough around him, though, he wasn't nearly as great, making me wonder if he's able to consistently elevate those around him.

"Is he a quarterback who can overcome adversity, or will he be limited by it in his career? San Francisco needs to feel comfortable in the answer, as they prepare to enter contract negotiations with him."

Here's what was most perplexing about Purdy's season. Despite all the injuries around him, he performed well early in games. Before halftime, he threw 12 touchdown passes, 2 interceptions and his quarterback rating was 104.7. After halftime, he threw 8 touchdown passes, 10 interceptions and his quarterback rating was 86.1. For the first time in his career, the 49ers played lots of close games, and he flopped at the end of most of them.

That's why he ranks behind Sam Darnold, Geno Smith and Jordan Love on this list.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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