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How 49ers QB Brock Purdy Benefits From Practicing Without All Pros

What an opportunity.

Grant Cohn

Jul 26, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) talks with a coach during Day 4 of training camp at SAP Performance Facility. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 26, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) talks with a coach during Day 4 of training camp at SAP Performance Facility. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports / D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports
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During actual games, Brock Purdy has every advantage.

He has six All Pros around him on offense. He also has a great game plan, an elite opening script and the best offensive system in the NFL. That's why people think he's a system quarterback. He hasn't proven he can succeed on his own.

That's why Sunday's practice was so important for him. He didn't have Trent Williams, Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel or Christian McCaffrey -- none of them practiced. And Purdy still had to find a way to move the ball against one of the best defenses in the league.

What an opportunity.

“It's good," said Purdy. "Obviously, we have our star players not getting a whole lot of reps, so we have other guys stepping up. And for me it's, ‘Alright, regardless of the mismatches and all that kind of stuff, I'm going to drop back, go through my reads, and I have to be efficient regardless of not having my guys out there.’ So stepping up, going through reads, hitting [WR] Chris Conley over the middle, checking the ball down, being smart. It makes me play quarterback really efficiently. Not saying when they are on the field I'm not, but when they're on the field, I'm a little, my antenna is up in terms of, ‘Alright, if I do get this look, I'm more tentative to throwing to Aiyuk or Deebo. So a day like this was good for me to just go through reads, take completions and be efficient.”

Purdy finished the session completing 11 of 13 passes with zero interceptions.

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Grant Cohn
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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