How Jed York Feels about the 49ers Making Trey Lance a Backup

"I wouldn't change anything that we've made about the decision with Trey."

PHOENIX -- Jed York spoke Tuesday morning about lots of 49ers topics, including the decision to start Brock Purdy over Trey Lance next season. Here's what York said.

Q: "You traded up to to No. 3 to take Trey Lance, and now pick No. 262 is the leader in the clubhouse. How does that make you feel as an owner to see all that money go to Trey and yet the last pick is in line to be the starter.

YORK: "I wouldn't change anything that we've made about the decision with Trey. I think Trey has a chance to be great, but it's a bonus when you get somebody at the end of the seventh round who comes in and ends up being very impactful for your team. I've said it multiple times with quarterbacks, whether it was watching Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick, or watching Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance, and now Brock and Trey and Sam Darnold, you can't have enough good quarterbacks. I wish I could go back in time and have Steve Bono as my third-string quarterback behind two Hall of Famers. That's fantastic. You can't worry that Trey hasn't played as many games as we we would have liked. It's not his fault. He got injured. And when you look at when we drafted him, we wanted to make sure that we had a young quarterback on a rookie contract that allows you to spend on Javon Hargrave. I hope that one of these three quarterbacks gets a massive massive extension with the 49ers at some point, but until then, we're going to make sure that we build this thing around a young quarterback with a very team-friendly contract."

ME: In retrospect, was Trey too much of a project for a win-now team that simply wanted a young quarterback on a rookie deal that could win right away?

YORK: "My dad always loves to talk about the biggest misses in the draft. One was Joe Montana. He was a third-round pick. If you knew Joe Montana was Joe Montana, he's not a third-round. Tom Brady, if you knew he was Tom Brady, he's not a sixth-round pick. That's the beauty of this game. You don't know what player will step up at what moment. That's the most important position in this league. You're not winning a Championship unless you have somebody who's at least a very good quarterback if not an extremely great quarterback. We're going to always invest in that position. I wouldn't change anything about investing in that position."

Watch the full interview below.