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Is Brock Purdy Worth $50 Million per Season?

He's 24, he's mobile, he's 4-2 in his career in the playoffs and his passer rating last season was 113.

Grant Cohn

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The 49ers will pay Brock Purdy $1 million next season, which means he's still the biggest bargain in sports. But in 2025, he'll be eligible for a contract extension, and it won't be cheap.

Just look at Kirk Cousins, who just signed a huge contract with the Atlanta Falcons. He'll be 36 next season, he's coming off a torn Achilles, he wasn't particularly mobile before the injury, he's 1-3 in his career in the playoffs, his passer rating last season was 103.8 and he will earn $45 million per season on average.

So what would Purdy be worth on the open market?

He's 24, he's mobile, he's 4-2 in his career in the playoffs and his passer rating last season was 113. By all accounts, he's more valuable than Cousins, which means Purdy should be able to command at least $50 million per season.

But should the 49ers give him that extension next year? Will he be worth all that money to them?

Let's look at his playoff resume.

Start 1: Three touchdown passes, zero interceptions, 131.5 passer rating in a win over the Seahawks. Impressive performance.

Start 2: Zero touchdown passes, zero interceptions, 87.4 passer rating in a win over the Cowboys. Modest performance.

Start 3: Tore his UCL on the first drive of the game and lost to the Eagles. Abbreviated performance.

Start 4. One touchdown pass, zero interceptions, 86.7 passer rating in a win over the Packers. Modest performance.

Start 5. One touchdown pass, one interception, 89 passer rating in a win over the Lions. Modest performance.

Start 6. One touchdown pass, zero interceptions, 89.3 passer rating in a loss to the Chiefs. Modest performance.

With the exception of his first playoff game against the mediocre Seahawks and his abbreviated playoff game against the Eagles, all of his postseason performances have been adequate at best. And it's still unclear if he's good enough to win a Super Bowl. He wasn't good enough last season while making $900,000 on the best roster in football. Will he be good enough in the future when he's making $50 million and the roster isn't nearly as loaded?

Purdy still has much to prove.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

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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