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Dan Graziano Says 49ers Will Pay Brock Purdy More than $55 Million Per

Get ready for another prolonged contract negotiation.

Grant Cohn

December 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) celebrates with tight end George Kittle (85) after scoring a touchdown against the Detroit Lions during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
December 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) celebrates with tight end George Kittle (85) after scoring a touchdown against the Detroit Lions during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images / Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
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Get ready for another prolonged contract negotiation.

Two years ago, the 49ers waited all offseason just to give Nick Bosa everything he wanted. Last year, they did the same thing with Brandon Aiyuk. This year, ESPN's Dan Graziano expects the 49ers to take their sweet time extending Brock Purdy only to ultimately cave and give him a contract that makes him the second-highest-paid quarterback in the NFL behind Dak Prescott.

"Purdy is earning only about $5.2 million in 2025, which might make him more eager to get a deal done at something closer to the 49ers' offered number," writes Graziano. "But while the 49ers can sometimes take a while to get these things done, they haven't been afraid of paying players such as (Nick) Bosa and Brandon Aiyuk at or near the top of the market for their respective positions. If Purdy wants to push it and stand on his record relative to his peers, don't be shocked if his eventual extension ends up averaging more than (Trevor) Lawrence's $55 million."

And why wouldn't Purdy want to push it? Why would he accept the 49ers' initial lowball offer when they've shown every year that they always cave in August or September and increase their offer significantly? Ask Bosa, Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel, Fred Warner, George Kittle and Trent Williams.

I don't expect Purdy to hold out. He's the quarterback -- holding out would ruin the 49ers' Super Bowl hopes. But I do expect him to wait until August or September to sign his extension even though he said he wanted to sign it as soon as possible.

This is business.

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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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