The San Francisco 49ers have already started to gut some of their roster to pay Brock Purdy in the future.
There are a few tough decisions the 49ers will continue to have to make. On one hand, paying Purdy is the smart decision. On the contrary, moving on from players to spend it on him might not work out.
Purdy has proven to be very good, but he’s also in an incredible system with Kyle Shanahan. The system runs as well as it does because of Purdy, but the other players are just as, if not more, important.
The 49ers understand they have to pay Purdy eventually, and they finally spoke about it on Tuesday. Owner Jed York spoke to the media about his contract situation, saying the 49ers want him in San Francisco long-term.
“I think he is [a top-10 quarterback],” York said, according to Timm Hamm of Athlon Sports. “I think he’s great. Especially when you combine him with Kyle and what we have, he’s a heck of a quarterback and we want him here for a long, long time.”
“When you make the decision that you want to pay a quarterback that’s obviously been underpaid for his first three seasons in the NFL, when you make that change, you have to make sacrifices somewhere.”
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