SF is a team not scared to do backups. He has to be a little careful there. How many times do these contracts get renegotiated? Several. If he gets a 3/90 contract with this year being one of them. It’s like taking 5 this year and then 40 and 45.
Adam Schefter on Brock Purdy's contract status (and a Tyrese Haliburton mention)
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Brock has very little leverage, the 9ers could pay him the amount owed this season, and then franchise tag him the next two years, paying him an average of the highest 5 QB's in the league. So he would be making around 50/55 million a year those last two seasons. Sitting out would be the dumbest thing for him to do, report, play under the old contract if he has to and then see how it goes from there. 3 years at 30 million would cost him money in the long run, that only is a good contract if he plays poorly, which I doubt he will.
Dropping $100 mil over 2 years on a QB while leaving the door wide open for him to leave isn't exactly a power play by SF.
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It's not a $100 million more like half that, as he is under contract for the coming year. They franchise tag him the season in 26 and 27 costs them less money that giving him $50 million a year now. By doing this, it gives them 3 years to figure out if Purdy is the guy they want, if they decide they do, they can then offer him a long term deal, if not, they can also let him walk if they have a replacement in line.
It would be $105M over 3 years with an out each offseason. That is a bargain for a QB nowadays. And mitigates risk of injury/declined performance.
Plus if he balls out this year, I’m sure they would be willing to get to that 50/60m AAV next offseason with more confidence he could win a Super Bowl
I thought he was in the last year of his current deal. He isn’t an unrestricted FA next year?
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I think it needs to be said how difficult being an NFL QB really is. SF has leverage right now, but if they mess up Purdy's situation, SF takes the risk of pushing away a very decent QB with no guarantee that they'll find another in the weeds. Sure they can draft one, but as we know it's not always a grand slam even if you get one.
It is, but they can put the franchise tag on him twice, thereby keeping him on the team for 3 more years. This one under the current contract and the twice under the franchise tag. As I said before, Purdy has no leverage here, the 49ers have all of it.
The Browns have ruined many a young QB’s potential with bare cupboards over the years. SF looks a lot barer in 2025 than it normally does. QBs make easy scapegoats
Good point, but we've all seen Mac Jones play. I don't think he can be competent
49ers do that to Brock then they are telling him he is not their QB. The bridge will be burnt. The locker room destroyed. They will be sending the message they care nothing about their players. Purdy has literally saved the franchise from the Trey Lance debacle. And then you crap on him. Because you can.
Right, so in that scenario SF gets one cheap year then elite QB money for 2 years and he just walks when he's done. My point is that's a terrible deal for SF, no GM would survive that.
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The idea is if he performs at a high level, they can lock him up down the road. It's only a problem is if he gets three years from now and is not under contract, they would be in trouble. You keep assuming that Purdy had a down year last season, and will be back at the top of his game from this point on, that is not necessarily true. Doing it this way, if he refuses to sign a team friendly deal, gives them a chance to push that decision down the road and for the team to see if Purdy is worth the money for them to commit a large contract too. Also by waiting, it will free up more money for the team to sign him to a large deal a year from now. As much as many want to see Purdy get paid, which he should, the team will be in a better position next season to make that happen.
If the report is correct they have offered a 3 year deal at 30 million a season, they could be telling Purdy, we think you are very good, but we want you to prove it again to us. Purdy has no leverage here, if he turns all world, then he can walk away from the contract in 3 years, but not until then and sign a huge deal with some other team. I would bet the 49ers do not want to be in a position like Cleveland that you have committed huge dollars to a QB that is not real good. Both sides are taking a risk here, how or why Purdy got there and saved their butt really does not matter, they could counter and say "without us choosing you, you would have come into the league as a FA hoping to make a team."
Not really a Vikings fan, but I can see Purdy absolutely cook there if McCarthy doesn't work out.
I see no way the 49ers let him leave if he produces at a high level, if they do, then they will already have someone on the team to replace him. They are taking a chance either way they go, lock him up and there is a chance he underperforms , or let it go and see what happens. I have always said I would to the franchise tag route for a season or two as opposed to locking him up long term. He looked great at times. but has looked very average at times also.
The Jerry Jones method. Always ends up paying and it always costs him more. That's how Dak became a 60-million-dollar quarterback
I’m not assuming anything, but they don’t have all the leverage if they’re going to risk letting him walk.
They’re going to give him a big deal this off-season because they have to. You don’t piss off a young promising QB just to save some cap space for a year.
