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Brock Purdy Makes the Case for Christian McCaffrey to Win the MVP

Purdy is awfully generous.
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Brock Purdy Makes the Case for Christian McCaffrey to Win the MVP
Brock Purdy Makes the Case for Christian McCaffrey to Win the MVP

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SANTA CLARA -- You could argue the 49ers have to top two most valuable players in the NFL this season -- Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey.

Purdy probably will win the award, because a running back hasn't won it since 2012. But McCaffrey has as good of a case as a running back could have.

So on Friday, Purdy made the case for McCaffrey to be the MVP.

ME: If you had to make the case for Christian McCaffrey to win the MVP Award, what would you say on his behalf?

PURDY: "He does it all. He's the reason why our pass game and our play-action pass opened up, because he sets a standard with the run game. And then when we do pass the ball, he's there in our play. He catches the ball, he makes guys miss, he can go up against safeties and linebackers and make them miss in the pass game. And then he scores touchdowns, his stats are crazy, so he's definitely a valued player, and I think the most valued player."

Isn't it refreshing how open and honest Purdy is? I love that right off the bat, he credited McCaffrey for opening up the pass game. Whether Purdy realized it or not, he essentially said that McCaffrey makes his teammates better by making their jobs easier, which is what an MVP is supposed to do.

Of course, Purdy makes his teammates better as well. It's just cool to hear him make such a convincing argument for his teammate.

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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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