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Jed York: 49ers QB Brock Purdy is Top 10 When Paired with Kyle Shanahan

Sounds like the 49ers know what Purdy is and that they shouldn't overpay him.
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Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) spikes the football after scoring the touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images
Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) spikes the football after scoring the touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images | Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images

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PALM BEACH -- We know the 49ers like Brock Purdy as a player and as a person. But it's still unclear just how good of a quarterback they truly think he is.

On Tuesday and the NFL Annual Meeting, 49ers owner Jed York suggested that Purdy is a top-10 quarterback with an asterisk.

"When you find somebody that is a top-10 quarterback who can help you continually win football games, you have to make that decision (to pay him)," York said. "And if you do that, it comes with consequences. We were one of the oldest teams in the league last season. Depending on what measure you look at, we were one of the most injured teams last year. You have to get younger and healthier and you have to make sure you build around a core. And that's what we're trying to do."

"Are you saying Brock Purdy is a top-10 quarterback?" a reporter asked York.

"I think he is," York said. "I think he's great, especially when you combine him with Kyle Shanahan and you combine him with what we have. He's a heck of a quarterback and we want him to be here for a long long time.

TRANSLATION: Purdy can perform like a top-10 quarterback if he's being coached by Kyle Shanahan, and if he's playing with a bunch of superstars such as Christian McCaffrey, Trent Williams, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk.

Which means Purdy really isn't a top-10 quarterback. If he were on the Raiders or the Patriots, he probably would struggle because he's not good enough to elevate a team -- we saw that last season. And when he's making top-10-quarterback money, he won't be surrounded by superstars anymore.

Sounds like the 49ers know what Purdy is and that they shouldn't overpay him.

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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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