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Chris Simms Says the 49ers Should Trade Brock Purdy

Wow.
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Dec 3, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy walks from the tunnel to warm up against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images
Dec 3, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy walks from the tunnel to warm up against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images | Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

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Four days before the NFL Draft, Kyle Shanahan's best friend, Chris Simms, just said that the 49ers should trade Brock Purdy.

Wow.

Keep in mind, Simms and Shanahan went to the University of Texas together more than 20 years ago and have each other's initials tattooed on their ankles. They're tight.

"Would the Steelers want Brock Purdy as their quarterback?" Simms asked Monday on Pro Football Talk Live. "It might be too late in the game to make a move like that for the 49ers right now, but if I had something to say about it, I would have said, 'Let's just blow this thing up, let's trade him away to somebody and let's get somebody else at quarterback for the future and build this team again.' That's what I would want to do. My friends Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch probably are going to hate me for saying this."

I love Simms for saying this. Because he's absolutely correct. The 49ers should trade Purdy during the draft and start over with a quarterback who's on a rookie deal so they can invest in the rest of their roster. That's been their formula for success for years.

To answer Simms' question, no, I don't think the Steelers would want Purdy as their quarterback. Pittsburgh is a cold city and Purdy can't throw a wet football. He would be a much better fit for the Saints or the Titans.

The 49ers should offer Purdy to the Titans for their second-round pick and then take the best quarterback available in Round 2 -- either Jaxson Dart or Tyler Shough.

Start over. Listen to Simms.

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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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