SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Brock Purdy has signed his five-year extension with the San Francisco 49ers, shortly turning one of many NFL’s finest bargains into one of many league’s highest-paid quarterbacks.
The edges agreed on the five-year extension price $265 million final week. The 49ers introduced it on Tuesday, and the workforce will maintain a information convention on Wednesday with Purdy.
“Brock is an incredible chief and a incredible consultant for the 49ers group, and we’re ecstatic to get this deal accomplished,” common supervisor John Lynch stated in an announcement. “Once we took him with the final choose within the draft, we knew he had potential to reach this league, however we had no thought how particular of a participant he would turn into. He has performed at an exceptionally excessive stage since taking up the beginning job, and we look ahead to seeing him proceed to steer this workforce for years to return.”
Purdy has made lower than $1 million a 12 months for his first three seasons and was set to get a small elevate in 2025 to about $5.2 million underneath the league’s confirmed efficiency escalator for making the Professional Bowl final season. As an alternative, this new deal places Purdy among the many prime 10 in quarterback contracts.
After a number of prolonged contract disputes lately, the Niners received this deal accomplished with Purdy with no drama. He reported to the beginning of the offseason program and now has his contract earlier than on-field practices begin later this month.
Purdy’s journey from the ultimate choose of the 2022 draft to this large contract has been a exceptional one which noticed him take over as starter late in his rookie season, turn into an MVP finalist on the best way to main the 49ers to the Tremendous Bowl in 2023 after which solidifying his place final season.
Purdy’s success helped rescue the Niners from a probably catastrophic mistake after they traded three first-round picks to draft Trey Lance third total in 2021, solely to look at him battle earlier than getting traded away in 2023.
The Niners took Purdy 262nd total within the 2022 draft – Mr. Irrelevant because the final choose – and even earlier than his first exhibition sport as a rookie, coach Kyle Shanahan had instructed proprietor Jed York that Purdy was the workforce’s finest quarterback.
He received the prospect to show that late in his rookie season in 2022 after Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo had gone down with season-ending accidents. Purdy received the ultimate 5 begins of the common season and the primary two rounds of the playoffs earlier than struggling a critical harm to his throwing elbow early in an NFC title sport loss to Philadelphia that season.
However the 108 passer ranking, 16 TDs and solely 4 interceptions he had that season proved he was succesful so long as he was wholesome and he backed that up with a sensational 2023 season.
Purdy had probably the most prolific passing seasons in workforce historical past when he completed fourth within the NFL in MVP voting. He set a franchise document for yards passing (4,280) and have become the primary Niners QB in additional than 20 years to throw a minimum of 30 TD passes (31). Purdy led the NFL with a 113 passer ranking and his 9.6 yards per try have been essentially the most within the NFL for a qualifying QB since Kurt Warner had 9.9 in 2000.
He helped lead comeback wins over Inexperienced Bay and Detroit within the playoffs earlier than falling quick towards Kansas Metropolis in extra time within the Tremendous Bowl.
That success was tougher to return by in 2024 as Purdy was hampered by accidents to key offensive gamers like Christian McCaffrey, Trent Williams and Brandon Aiyuk. His passer ranking dropped practically 17 factors to 96.1, he had solely 20 TD passes and 12 interceptions on the season, and likewise got here up quick in a number of late-game eventualities when the 49ers had an opportunity for a comeback win.
Purdy’s play was a part of a team-wide downturn that led to a 6-11 document and the primary missed playoff look for San Francisco since 2020.
However he did not lose the help of Shanahan, York or common supervisor John Lynch, who all expressed a powerful need to verify Purdy remained the workforce’s long-term reply at quarterback.
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