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NFC Personnel Man Says 49ers Should Not Extend Brock Purdy

What an unenviable position to be in.
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Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter 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) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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What an unenviable position to be in.

The 49ers have a good quarterback, not a great quarterback. Of course, we're talking Brock Purdy. When he was getting paid $1 million per season, he was a phenomenal value. But now, he apparently wants more than $50 million per season because he had one great year on one great team in 2023.

In 2024 when lots of key players around him got injured, he didn't play so well.

And that's one reason why a high-ranking NFC personnel man who requested anonymity told Sports Illustrated's Matt Verderame that the 49ers should not extend Purdy.

"I’d play it out as long as possible without paying him if I was San Francisco, including using tags, etc.," said the personnel man. "I think paying him $50-plus million is very risky."

I completely agree.

The 49ers do not have to pay Purdy more than $50 million per season. I doubt any other team would even consider paying him that much because they don't have Kyle Shanahan.

The 49ers feel that Purdy is a great fit for Shanahan's offense, but that doesn't mean they want to give him every penny he wants. Technically, they can keep him for the next three seasons by making him play out the final year of his rookie deal in 2025 and then franchise-tagging him in 2026 and 2027. In total, those moves would cost the 49ers roughly $98 million.

There's absolutely no good reason to pay Purdy a dollar more.

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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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