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PFF: Brock Purdy Gets More Help than Any Other NFL Quarterback
Most people agree that Brock Purdy is a good quarterback who makes the 49ers better.
Most people also agree that Purdy benefits greatly from the 49ers' supporting cast and offensive system. And according to Pro Football Focus, while the 49ers pass protection wasn't elite in 2023, the 49ers had the highest-graded receiving corps and their offense led the league in expected points added on screen passes and play-action passes and run-pass options.
"The 49ers totaled four players who saw 100 or more targets in the regular season and playoffs," writes PFF analyst Gordon McGuiness. "All four earned an 85.0-plus PFF receiving grade.
Collectively, PFF gave the 49ers' receiving corps a grade of 91.0, while the second-highest grade went to the Miami Dolphins who received an 85.7.
"With an EPA per play average more than three times higher than the next-best team, the 49ers screen game was in a class all by itself," writes McGuiness. "Including playoffs, they picked up 517 receiving yards and five passing touchdowns on screens."
The 49ers' screen game was three times more successful than the Cowboys, who ranked second in screen pass efficiency.
"The 49ers once again led the way (in play-action passes), far outpacing any other team in the league," wrote McGuiness. "Their quarterbacks went 104-for-140 for 1,348 yards with 13 touchdowns and just two interceptions including the playoffs last year.
Notice McGuiness wrote quarterbacks, plural. All 49ers quarterbacks benefit from Kyle Shanahan's elite play-action scheme that forces defenses to sell out to stop Christian McCaffrey, the Offensive Player of the Year.
"The 49ers generated a positive EPA on a whopping 88.2% of their RPO passes in 2023 including the playoffs," writes McGuiness. "Their quarterbacks went 15-for-16 for 171 yards with a touchdown and an interception from 17 dropbacks."
The 49ers should consider these statistics carefully before they give Brock Purdy more than $60 million per season next year.
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.