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Jed York Says Extending 49ers QB Brock Purdy "Shouldn't be that Hard"

The 49ers don't seem worried at all about extending Brock Purdy's contract.

Grant Cohn

Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers chief executive officer Jed York on the field before the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 27, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers chief executive officer Jed York on the field before the game against the Dallas Cowboys at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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PALM BEACH -- The 49ers don't seem worried at all about extending Brock Purdy's contract.

They're prepared to make him the highest-paid player in franchise history, but he hasn't signed a deal yet.

On Tuesday, 49ers owner Jed York was asked about the Purdy negotiations. Here's what York said.

Q: Where are you in the negotiations with Brock Purdy?

YORK: "That's John Lynch and Paraag Marathe and those guys. We've had good discussions. I've seen Brock a few times at the gym and in the facility. That's just not something I'm going to get deep into, but I have every hope and expectation that Brock will be a 49er for a long long time."

Q: Would you like to get these deals done sooner than you have the past few years?

YORK: "You can't make somebody sign a deal, whoever it is. You have to make sure that you figure out the right way to do it. Whenever somebody wants to sign a deal that we've offered a contract to, we want to make sure that we close that. I can't tell you when they're going to sign. That's out of my control. And it's not something you can worry about. I have no power over somebody else to make them sign a contract today. They have to sign when they're ready, and we have to be patient and prepared and make sure that we do the right thing for the club."

Q: How do you feel talks have gone with Brock to this point? Productive?

YORK: "I don't negotiate contracts, but any conversations I've had with Brock personally have been great. I feel good and when he's ready, we'll sit down and finish it. It shouldn't be that hard to do."

MY TAKE: York clearly knows much more than he's letting on -- he's the owner of the team. And I find it interesting that York repteadly mentioned that he spoke directly to Purdy, and those conversations give him confidence that a deal will get done.

But York never mentioned the agent, who is negotiating on behalf of Purdy. Perhaps the agent is the reason the deal hasn't been signed yet.

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Grant Cohn
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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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