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Report: No Teams Have Called the 49ers to Trade for Brock Purdy

This is fascinating.
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Dec 22, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) attempts a pass against the Miami Dolphins during second half at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images
Dec 22, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) attempts a pass against the Miami Dolphins during second half at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images | Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images

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This is fascinating.

The 49ers are engaged in a huge contract negotiation with Brock Purdy, and the two sides might not be so close to an agreement. Last year, the 49ers went through a bitter negotiation with Brandon Aiyuk. And while they struggled to get a deal done, multiple teams called the 49ers to try to trade for him. That's just the way the NFL works.

Now, Purdy is in a similar situation, which means teams should be ready to make the 49ers trade offers for Purdy if they refuse to pay him what he wants. But The Athletic's Dianna Russini recently questioned whether a trade market for Purdy truly exists.

"If he is a top 10 quarterback with Kyle Shanahan detached from it, how come no teams have called to trade for him?" Russini asked. "There have not been any teams that have called the 49ers to trade for Brock Purdy. That kind of tells you how the rest of the league views him without Kyle Shanahan."

You have to remember, Purdy struggled last season with Kyle Shanahan while making virtually no money. He won six games and ranked 13th in passer rating. So when Jed York said at the NFL Annual League meeting last week that Purdy is a top 10 quarterback when he's combined with Shanahan, even that might not be true.

In Purdy's career, his record is 18-6 when Christian McCaffrey plays, and it's 5-7 when McCaffrey is out. Which means Purdy is elite only when he's combined with the best running back in football who also draws double coverage when he runs routes.

No one has that player. The 49ers might not even have that player anymore -- McCaffrey is getting old and breaking down.

Trading for Purdy, paying him $55 million per season and expecting him to win games would be foolish. I'm not surprised he has no trade market.

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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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