Roughly three years after the San Francisco 49ers made quarterback Brock Purdy the final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, they signed him to a five-year, $265M contract extension that included $181M in guarantees and a no-trade clause. Purdy is now the undisputed highest-paid quarterback from his draft class, but that doesn’t mean that he’s forgotten that every team passed on grabbing him several years ago. “It’s part of the game, man,” Purdy recently said about putting pen to paper on his extension, per Vic Tafur of The Athletic. “Guys get paid. You have to go out and continue to perform. …It’s not thinking about, ‘Oh, I’m the highest-paid player on the team.’ It’s, ‘What’s my read? What’s the base defensive front and the safety structure?’ Go through my process and execute and have that chip on my shoulder to compete every play, every down. …That’s what’s gotten me here to this point in my career, and I don’t want to lose sight of that.” Purdy famously helped the 49ers reach a pair of NFC Championship Games anRead More
Does 49ers’ Brock Purdy still have chip on his shoulder after signing massive extension?
