Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss how much of a distraction the impending Brock Purdy contract will be for the 49ers and whether the young QB will command a max extension – or if the 49ers will look to develop a new QB.
Video Transcript
I’m gonna just pose this as my one big thing for the 49er.
How loud is the noise around Brock Purdy’s contract going to get?
This is according to Spot track right now.
His salary cap number for this year is $1.004 million.
Are you kidding me?
Brock Purdy’s contract, his cap number is just over a million dollars and important to note, you can’t renegotiate a player until they finish year three.
Right?
So this is the first time at the end of this coming season, he can be renegotiated because he was a late pick.
He’s a, he only has four years on a deal.
So if you’re a 49er fan, you’re listening saying, ok, well, we’ve got him for a million this year.
And again, according to the worldwide interweb, 1.19 million next year, I don’t think there’s any way in hell, Brock Ferdy is gonna show up and play for 1.19 million.
So now all of a sudden, if you’re the 49er and Brock, we get into this spot where you go from being a really amazing story that everybody loves to get behind to a very real question of, are you a $50 million a year quarterback?
Because if systems make quarterbacks in San Francisco, they’re gonna have to answer that very real question.
Brock Purdy has played too well and if he has this season this year, I think most of us think he’ll have.
I think he’s a very good quarterback.
I don’t really care if it’s the system, he’s putting up the numbers, he’s putting up and we look at the 40 trying to figure out how to balance their money already with the stars.
They have if Brock plays particularly well this year or doesn’t, either way, the roar about his contract is going to be a wild distraction for everybody.
Uh It’s crazy.
I, I think that this might be the most interesting contract conversation we’ve ever had in the NFL because…
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Publish date : 2024-07-29 12:00:42
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