Jed York is Eager to Pay Brock Purdy More than $40 Million Annually

ORLANDO -- Brock Purdy will be eligible for a gigantic contract extension a year from now,, and the 49ers apparently have begun to plan for it already.

Here's what owner Jed York said about Purdy's future this week at the NFL Annual Meeting.

Q: How much groundwork do you have to put into place for the likelihood -- well, probably the guarantee that he will be the highest-paid player on the team and the likelihood that he'll be one of the highest-paid players in the NFL next year?

YORK: "I think it's a good problem when your quarterback is one of the highest-paid guys on your team and in the league. So there is a lot of planning that goes into it, but I'm glad that we have Paraag Marathe, John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan -- they're the ones who will figure out the details of it, and I just have to sign the check, so my part in that is kind of easy."

Q: But kind of hard too.

YORK: "It's not hard. It's what the market is. It's not like Brock is going to ask for something no one has ever asked for before. You have I don't know how many quarterbacks making more than $40 million per season right now. And when we signed Jimmy Garopolo several years ago, it was the largest deal in the history of the NFL for three minutes, and we were paying him $26 million or $27 million per season, and you've seen the market has changed. Whether I like it or not, that's what the market is, and you have to accept the reality of the world, and to me the quarterback is the most important position in all of sports, and those guys should be paid a lot of money."

MY TAKE: Once again, York is getting ahead of himself. Purdy may earn a mondo extension, but he still has much to prove, and the upcoming season will determine just how much money the 49ers should offer him. York just backed up the Brinks truck prematurely.