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REPORT: 49ers Quarterback Brock Purdy is Showing Up to OTAs

This is good news for the 49ers.
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Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) during the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) during the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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This is good news for the 49ers.

Brock Purdy has shown up to Phase 1 of 49ers OTAs according to The Athletic's Dianna Russini. Purdy was undecided about whether to attend as recently as yesterday according to Mike Silver, but apparently he chose to do the right thing.

Good for Purdy.

This doesn't necessarily mean the 49ers and Purdy will finalize an extension in the next few weeks, although they might. I take this as an act of good faith from Purdy. Even though the extension isn't done and he hasn't received the offer he wants yet, he's not going to hold the team hostage. He's going to honor his responsibility as a team leader and show up to work with his teammates.

This is exactly what Fred Warner is doing. He wants an extension as well and reportedly has made no real progress with the 49ers on that front. And yet, he's showing up to OTAs too because he's the quarterback of the defense and the unquestioned leader of the team. And leaders show up to work no matter what.

Still, the 49ers shouldn't pay him more than $45 million per season.

Purdy can say all the right things and do all the right things -- we already know he's a pro's pro. We don't know that he's an elite top-10 franchise quarterback, though. He hasn't proven that yet. And if the 49ers were to give him all that money after coming off a 6-11 season, their Super Bowl window might close for good. They could be stuck in football purgatory, otherwise known as mediocrity.

But at least he showed up today.

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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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