Brock Purdy's 49ers Contract
Brock Purdy’s contract put him on a four-year, $3,737,008 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including a $77,008 signing bonus, $77,008 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $934,252. He was drafted as the final pick (262nd overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft, making him that year’s Mr. Irrelevant. Despite that, the team had confidence in him. “He’s relevant to us,” general manager John Lynch said.
“I think it’s a funny thing,” Purdy told ESPN at the time. “If you’re a fan, or even my family, friends and stuff, it’s funny to laugh about it and joke around with it. For me, I’m looking at it as an opportunity. I got my foot in the door, a team believed in me and now I get my opportunity to go and play football. That’s what I want my career to be. That’s what I want my job to be is to be an NFL quarterback and now I have the opportunity to do so. That’s how I’m looking at it.”
He continued: “From the outside looking in, I guess it’s a funny thing and I’ll embrace the role and have some fun with it for sure, but at the end of the day I’m trying to go and help a team win the Super Bowl. That’s where my mindset is at with it.”
Kyle Shanahan asked Griese and assistant quarterbacks coach Klay Kubiak to put together a list of names they liked at the position, which included Purdy. “He was a guy we labeled early as our No. 1 free agent we were gonna go after and when you get to there and they haven’t been drafted, we have the last pick, we thought it was perfect,” Shanahan said. “The guy has played a lot of football. He plays the game the right way. He’s extremely tough, gets the ball to the right spots and plays very well in the pocket and is a guy who we think can come in here and help us fill out this roster and give himself a chance to make the team.”
The deal was a steal. Purdy is the top-rated quarterback in the NFL, well on his way to MVP eligibility, which leads some pundits to argue his current contract should be torn up so he can be paid what he deserves. Top quarterbacks, after all, are making anywhere from $12 million to $57 million per year.
In an interview with NBC, Purdy explained that because of his low salary, his living arrangements have had to reflect that. “So, I still have a roommate, one of my offensive linemen here,” Purdy admitted. “So, he and I are still splitting rent. I still drive my Toyota Sequoia and, other than that, it’s pretty simple.”
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