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Will the 49ers Extend Brock Purdy’s Contract Next Year?

If the 49ers refuse to pay Purdy what he's worth next year, he could sit out all of 2025.

Grant Cohn

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Technically, Brock Purdy will be eligible for a contract extension after next season, but the 49ers don't have to give him one.

Purdy's contract runs through 2025. So if the 49ers want to play hard ball, they could make him play out his rookie deal and then figure out what to do with him in two years. Then they could extend his contract, let him go or franchise tag him. Remember, Washington franchise tagged Kirk Cousins a couple times a few years ago. But they poisoned their relationship with him. Eventually, he left as quickly as he could and never looked back.

The 49ers would run the risk of poisoning their relationship with Purdy if they don't extend him next offseason, because he already has done so much for them for so little -- he's making NFL minimum wage. And he will again next season. And assuming he stay healthy and continues to play well, his extension would be extremely expensive for the 49ers.

If the 49ers refuse to pay Purdy what he's worth next year, he could sit out all of 2025. Or he could do what Cousins did -- fulfill his contractual obligation to the team and bolt as soon as he legally can.

I'm guessing the 49ers don't want to drive away the best quarterback they've had since Jeff Garcia. I'm guessing they'll extend his contract as soon as they can next offseason and he'll earn more than $50 million per season on average.

Is Purdy worth that much money?

We'll find out.

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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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