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What Jared Goff's Contract Extension Means for Brock Purdy

When it's Purdy's turn for an extension, he won't accept $53 million per season, which is what the Lions will give Goff.

Grant Cohn

Jan 28, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13)
Jan 28, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) / Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports
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This is good for Brock Purdy but not so good for the 49ers.

The Detroit Lions just gave Jared Goff a four-year, $212 million contract extension, which in a sense is good news for the 49ers because it almost guarantees that the Lions won't win a Super Bowl any time soon. That's just way too much money to give a quarterback who's good but limited.

But the news is not ideal for the 49ers because Brock Purdy will be eligible for a contract extension next year. And although he has his own limitations, he definitely is better than Goff, who can't do anything off-script. Purdy can create a few plays on his own.

So when it's Purdy's turn for an extension, he won't accept $53 million per season, which is what the Lions will give Goff. To keep Purdy around long-term, the 49ers probably will have to give him somewhere between $55 million and $60 million per season, And that's just too much for him.

Don't get me wrong -- Purdy is a good quarterback. But he's not a great one. And paying good quarterbacks top dollar is a bad idea.

Purdy is a great fit for the 49ers' offense and he ad-libs well, too. But he doesn't have much arm talent and he's not a great athlete, so most of his performances in the playoffs have been decidedly mediocre.

The 49ers still have another year to decide if they want to pay Purdy, but it seems like they already have made up their mind.

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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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