The 49ers’ Brock Purdy has made a storybook rise from training camp afterthought to possibly the NFL’s first rookie quarterback in a Super Bowl.
, where an upset Sunday at top-seeded Philadelphia will make him the first rookie quarterback to reach a Super Bowl.
Whether he’s improvising on the lamb or going by Shanahan’s script, Purdy has a knack for keeping the play alive. But any trust factor with his receivers has been forced, not fully developed. Lance hogged first-team reps from the start of spring workouts in April. Purdy toiled in the background, waited his turn and studied the heck out of Kyle Shanahan’s complex playbook, with the help of first-year quarterbacks coach Brian Griese and assistants Bobby Slowik and Klay Kubiak in that ever-changing QB room.“We haven’t seen anything change. The world is starting to see it,” wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud said. “He was doing this in , making plays and having the to do it.
Over the next two weeks, Purdy’s reps did not rise, nor did the talent pool of his target. He was throwing to Malik Turner, Troy Fumagalli, Tanner Hudson, Willie Snead IV, Tee Martin, Austin Mack and, for his best option, McCloud.
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