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The Saints Should Try to Trade for 49ers Quarterback Brock Purdy

They should call the 49ers and offer them the ninth pick in the draft in exchange for Purdy.
Grant Cohn|
August 18, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) before the game against the New Orleans Saints at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
August 18, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) before the game against the New Orleans Saints at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images | Kyle Terada-Imagn Images

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Suddenly, the New Orleans Saints are in desperate need of a starting quarterback. Will they call up the 49ers and try to trade for Brock Purdy?

Their current starting quarterback, Derek Carr, has a shoulder injury which could cost him the entire 2025 season according to reports. The remaining quarterbacks on their roster are Spencer Rattler, Jacob Haener and Ben DiNucci. Which means the Saints almost certainly will have another dismal season unless they make a bold move for a new quarterback.

When Carr was healthy last season, the Saints were solid -- his win-loss record was 5-5. Without him, they were 0-7. And Carr isn't particularly good anymore. He's an average starting quarterback at best. So the Saints might just make the playoffs if they were to find an upgrade. After all, they play in a terrible division.

They should call the 49ers and offer them the ninth pick in the draft in exchange for Purdy. And then the Saints should pay him more than $50 million per season to be the heir apparent to Drew Brees.

Purdy would be a great fit for the Saints because they play in a dome and he struggles to throw in wet weather. So he wouldn't have to worry about precipitation for half of his games.

Meanwhile, the 49ers would have two first-round picks -- No. 9 and No. 11. They could use one of those picks on a quarterback (Shedeur Sanders?), or they could make Mac Jones the starter and draft a backup in the later rounds.

The 49ers are beginning to rebuild, so paying Purdy more than $50 million per season doesn't really make sense for them at this time.

Call 'em up, Saints.

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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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