After making it to the NFC Championship game in back-to-back-to-back years, including a Super Bowl appearance during the 2023 season, the San Francisco 49ers had a down year due to all the injuries to both sides of the football, as many key starters missed a significant amount of time. San Francisco ended the 2024 campaign with a 6-11 record and finished last in the NFC West Division. The 49ers will have an opportunity to select a premium prospect with the 11th overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Since their disappointing season is over, San Francisco will transition to the next phase: the offseason. Throughout the offseason, the 49ers will make many difficult choices along the way, including letting key players walk during free agency and parting ways with key contributors to free up cap space. With all of the difficult decisions the front office will make, one of the biggest storylines surrounding the offseason will be the anticipated contract negotiations of their Pro Bowl signal-caller.
The San Francisco 49ers Pro Bowl quarterback is eligible for a contract extension
Since he completed his third regular season in the NFL and their season is over, Brock Purdy is eligible to sign a contract extension immediately, per Article 7, Section 3 (k) (i) of the CBA. The expectation is for the San Francisco 49ers to sign Purdy to a massive contract extension, which would make him one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the NFL. He will be in the final year of his 4-year, $3,737,008 contract he signed during the 2022 offseason and has a $1.1 million base salary and a $1,119,252 cap hit for 2025.
“A Rookie Contract for a Drafted Rookie may not be renegotiated, amended or altered in any way until after the final regular season game of the player’s third contract year.”
The 49ers’ star quarterback hopes to have his new contract completed by this date
During Monday’s press conference, Brock Purdy told the media that he would like to have his contract extension completed very quickly before it becomes a distraction and a possible holdout. Purdy went on to say that he prefers to have it completed before Phase 1 of the offseason, before OTAs, so he can practice with his receivers and the team, allowing them to grow and get better without any delays. Here’s what he had to say about the subject matter:
“For me, you know, I want to obviously get it done, if that’s an opportunity to be able to get that done quick that’d be great,” Purdy said via 49ers.cam on Instagram. “Just so we can get back to phase one — get after it with the receivers and our team and just continue to grow… And phase one is my mind of OTAs coming back, getting all the guys back and let’s roll let’s get after this offseason together.
“But with that being said everybody’s timing is a little different and stuff but you know for me at the end of the day I want to win… I’m not the kind of guy that wants to have any kind of drama associated with anything. I’m here for this organization and my teammates in the locker room.”
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Will the San Francisco 49ers immediately extend their Pro Bowl signal-caller, or will the contract talks stall and a potential holdout persist?
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