How Many QBs Would Win the Super Bowl on the 49ers?

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Brock Purdy might be the perfect quarterback for the 49ers, when you factor in his field vision, accuracy and salary. But he's far from the only quarterback who could win with the 49ers.
The 49ers have the best roster in the NFL -- it's built to elevate quarterbacks. And it certainly elevates Purdy, although he's excellent in his own right. Just look at how the 49ers roster boosted up Jimmy Garoppolo, who currently is the backup quarterback for the Raiders. Meaning he's not one of the top 32 quarterbacks in the NFL. And for years, the 49ers made him look like a top-15 quarterback at worst.
So if Garoppolo can go to the Super Bowl with the 49ers, how many NFL quarterbacks actually could win the Super Bowl with this roster?
Let's make a list of names in no particular order:
1. Brock Purdy
2. Patrick Mahomes
3. Josh Allen
4. Joe Burrow
5. Justin Herbert
6. Lamar Jackson
7. Matthew Stafford
8. Tua Tagovailoa
9. Dak Prescott
10. Jared Goff
11. Kirk Cousins (if healthy)
12. Baker Mayfield
And that's a conservative list. You probably could make the argument that the 49ers are so good, they could win a Super Bowl with Jake Browning or Sam Howell. And you might be right.
But part of the reason the 49ers' roster is so good is that they don't spend much money on the quarterback position, which is the most expensive position, so they can splurge elsewhere. That's another reason Purdy is perfect for the 49ers -- he fits their salary structure.
But he's not the only quarterback who could shine on this team. Far from it.

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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