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The 49ers Should Offer Brock Purdy $35 Million Per Season

Purdy probably thinks he's worth closer to $55 million per season.
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Dec 10, 2023; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Dec 10, 2023; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images

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This week at the NFL Annual League meeting, 49ers owner Jed York said that he's fully prepared to make Brock Purdy the highest-paid player in franchise history.

Unfortunately for Purdy, that could mean $35 million per season. Because that's $1 million more per season than Nick Bosa gets paid, and Bosa currently is the highest-paid player in franchise history.

Purdy probably thinks he's worth closer to $55 million per season considering that's how much the Jaguars pay Trevor Lawrence, and Purdy has had much more success in the NFL than him. But if Purdy and Lawrence were free agents right now, every team including the 49ers would rather have Lawrence and he would get paid much more money than Purdy. That's just reality.

Lawrence was a No. 1 pick who has played for a terrible team. He still has tons of potential. Meanwhile, Purdy was the last pick and has played for an excellent team. And he's coming off a down year.

If Purdy were a free agent this offseason, I doubt he would get paid much more than Sam Darnold just got paid by the Seattle Seahawks. They gave him a three-year, $100 contract and Darnold gladly took it because he knows he's not elite.

If Purdy had been a free agent, would the Seahawks have signed him instead of Darnold? I doubt it. Because Darnold is a former first-round pick with premium tools and Purdy isn't. And Darnold knows how good he is and how much he's actually worth.

As opposed to Purdy, who seems to think he's elite. If he doesn't accept $35 million per season, he can play out his rookie contract in 2025 and then get franchise-tagged in 2026 and 2027 and get paid roughly $98 million for the next three seasons.

There's just no reason to offer Purdy much more than that.

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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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