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49ers QB Brock Purdy is the 12th Pick in NFL.com's NFL Mock Draft

No wonder the 49ers will make Purdy the highest-paid player on the team and one of the highest-paid players in the league next year.

Grant Cohn

Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports / Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
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NFL.com just released a fascinating article.

It's an NFL mock draft, which means if every player were a free agent and there was a big draft to redistribute players around the NFL, who would get picked first? And which 49ers player would get picked first?

Most people wouldn't consider Brock Purdy to be the 49ers' best player. But in an NFL re-draft, he absolutely would be the first 49ers player off the board. And he certainly was the first 49ers player taken in Chad Reuter's NFL mock draft. Purdy went 12th to the Broncos.

"It’s easy for me to envision head coach Sean Payton loving the mental and physical toughness Purdy has brought to the 49ers," wrote Reuter.

Purdy certainly would be a good fit for Payton who coached Drew Brees for more than a decade.

It's interesting that Purdy got picked after Jalen Hurts and Jared Goff in this article. You could argue that Purdy should have gone ahead of both of them and landed in the top 10. Because even though Purdy lacks arm strength and wouldn't fit every offensive system in the league, enough teams run a version of Kyle Shahahan's system that Purdy would be in demand.

It's also interesting that the first 14 picks in this article are quarterbacks. The first non quarterback who's drafted is Myles Garrett who goes to the Colts at pick no. 15. So Purdy officially is more valuable than the reigning Defensive Player of the Year.

No wonder the 49ers will make Purdy the highest-paid player on the team and one of the highest-paid players in the league next year.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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