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Will the 49ers Trade Brock Purdy on Draft Night?

Something fishy seems afoot with the 49ers and Brock Purdy this offseason.
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Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) before 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) before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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Something fishy seems afoot with the 49ers and Brock Purdy this offseason.

Here's what we know:

1. Brian Griese, Purdy's biggest advocate in the organization, the person who pushed the team to draft Purdy and then coached him personally the past three years, mysteriously stepped away from coaching recently.

2. John Lynch recently said he wants Purdy to be with the organization as long as he's with the organization, but there's no guarantee he'll get an extension. There's also no guarantee Lynch and Kyle Shanahan will be with the organization next year if they miss the playoffs again, this time after paying Purdy big bucks. The NFL is a volatile league.

3. The 49ers are looking into selling a 10 percent stake in their team while simultaneously purchasing a controlling share in their second European soccer team -- Rangers FC of Scotland. They also own Leeds United.

4. Lynch said at the Combine that the 49ers front office is under tighter financial constraints than usual this year. A few days later, the 49ers traded Deebo Samuel to avoid paying him a $15 million check on March 22. The 49ers could do the same to Brandon Aiyuk to avoid paying him a $22 million check on April 1.

If the 49ers owners want to save cash so they can spend more on soccer, trading Purdy would be the best way to do that.

Purdy will be the biggest investment the 49ers owners ever have made in a football player, and they don't seem particularly eager to shell out massive amounts of cash right now.

So don't be surprised if the 49ers ultimately lowball Purdy, he rejects their offer, they trade him for a first-round pick and replace him with a rookie who will be cheap for the next four years.

Is that scenario so farfetched?

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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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