Mr. Irrelevant has formally now develop into Mr. Moolah.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reported on Friday that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has formally secured a monster new extension from the group. The 2 sides have reportedly agreed to phrases on a brand new five-year, $265 million contract (with $181 million assured).
Tom Pelissero of NFL Community provides that Purdy’s extension has about $165.1 million assured over the primary three seasons and can now take him via the 2030 marketing campaign.
Purdy, 25, now turns into the third-highest paid QB within the NFL by whole worth (behind Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence). The contract is a little more modest in terms of common annual worth ($53 million). By that measure, Purdy is tied with Detroit’s Jared Goff for the seventh-largest determine amongst QBs.
The previous final general decide within the 2022 NFL Draft, Purdy has skilled a meteoric rise over the previous few years. He took over because the full-time starter in San Francisco in the course of the 2023 season and proceeded to steer the league in passer ranking whereas throwing for 4,280 yards and 31 touchdowns. Purdy additionally made the Professional Bowl group that yr and completed fourth in MVP voting as San Francisco went on to make the Tremendous Bowl as properly.
Final season for the 49ers, Purdy took a little bit of step again with 3,864 passing yards and 20 passing touchdowns as San Francisco went 6-11 and missed the playoffs (with Purdy providing an attention-grabbing clarification for the group’s struggles after the very fact). However the 49ers parted methods with a number of longtime roster mainstays earlier this offseason, seemingly in anticipation of an enormous Purdy extension. Now the 2 sides have formally managed to place pen to paper roughly 4 months earlier than the beginning of the 2025 season.
