Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Maiocco: Purdy now faces the difficult part after big 49ers extension
“Purdy’s new deal will keep him under contract to the 49ers through the 2030 season. It signals that he is secure as the team’s franchise quarterback, which makes him an even more attractive option for lucrative endorsement deals. After all, there is a lot of cachet that comes with being the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers.
It was clearly important to Purdy not to cause any kind of distraction this offseason.
That is why he showed up at the beginning of the team’s offseason program rather than create an uncomfortable situation and, perhaps, leverage with a holdout.
It was clear that the last thing he wanted to do was create any situation that could translate to negativity on the field.
Players do not get involved when it comes to teammates’ financial decisions. Everyone kept quiet a year ago as left tackle Trent Williams and wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk did not suit up for one practice during training camp. But those situations had a noticeable impact on the energy level of the team last summer.
This offseason has been considerably less contentious when it comes to finances involving 49ers management and their top players. Tight end George Kittle got his contract extension done two weeks ago with no drama.”
Barrows: Ditching the drama: Why a 49ers-Brock Purdy deal was so essential this offseason (paywall)
“Recent 49ers offseasons were marked by loaded rosters and little competition. This year is different with roster battles looming at weakside linebacker, defensive tackle, left guard, nickel cornerback, swing tackle and, at least at the start of the season when veterans Aiyuk (injury) and Demarcus Robinson (suspension) might be absent, No. 3 receiver.
Shanahan is counting on newcomers — especially rookies — at a number of those spots.
“We kind of want to create that (competition) everywhere,” he said last month. “We haven’t had that for a while.”
The current 49ers are far more talented than when Shanahan and Lynch took over Chip Kelly’s depleted roster in 2017. They were essentially starting from scratch that year and brought in veterans such as Pierre Garçon, Brian Hoyer, Logan Paulsen and Malcolm Smith, all of whom had previously played under Shanahan or Robert Saleh, to set the tone and help show the newcomers how the 49ers offense and defense worked.
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Which is why offseason attendance and doing away with distractions were so important to Shanahan this spring. This offseason is like another reset, a return to ground zero. The coaches will be tasked with teaching the newcomers and the veterans will be counted on to set the standard for what Shanahan expects.
The tone-setting crew is led by Fred Warner and George Kittle. As with Purdy, the 49ers extended Kittle’s contract this offseason, and Warner’s is next on the to-do list. The two are among the most vocal players in practice, and Warner in particular isn’t shy about getting under the skin of offensive players and pushing them toward better, more energetic practices. They are among the longest-tenured 49ers and are the team’s de facto spokesmen.
Purdy wants to join that club. He’s certainly not the practice-field barker Warner and Kittle are, but he has a desire and feels a responsibility to lead the team. Which is why he showed up for the offseason program last month without the deal finalized. He felt compelled to be part of the reset and to help build the offseason momentum that was so palpably absent a year ago.”
“But the new deal doesn’t actually start until 2026. Which means that Purdy’s 2025 contract for $5.3 million remains in place. As Lynch hinted a few times in recent months, that 2025 contract mattered in these talks (and having one more contracted year on the books was part of what bogged down the Aiyuk negotiations last spring and summer).
Purdy’s agent won’t like me doing this, but if you count this year’s salary (which I’m sure the 49ers are doing internally), it’s a six-year, $270.3-million deal — with a $45 million AAV.
But who really cares about that kind of deal-parsing? Once the extension kicks in next year, Purdy will still be only 26 and he’ll be making top-10 money. And by pushing the start until 2026 — the salary cap should be over $300 million by then and could go increase by $25 million or more each year from there — the 49ers are ensuring that Purdy’s cap hit will be quite manageable as a percentage of the annual payroll.
That’s how the 49ers and Purdy figured out how to do this, and that’s the compromise.”
Brock Purdy’s maturity, leadership quantified in $265M extension with 49ers (paywall)
“The reality is Purdy has commanded respect at just about every turn. Despite manufactured buzz that surrounded how the 25-year-old would handle an offseason heading into the final year of his miniature rookie contract, his attendance on Day 1 of voluntary offseason workouts in April should’ve been hardly surprising for those who have been paying attention. Soon enough, his maturity and leadership was quantified with $181 million in guaranteed money.”
Fowler: With Brock Purdy’s deal done, 49ers must shift focus to Fred Warner
“Warner also carries a $9.5 million cap hit in 2027, a void year in his current deal. The 49ers can reduce his cap hit over the next two seasons with an extension, leading to speculation that something might get done with the linebacker this offseason.
“So they want to rework his deal, maybe extend him,” Fowler continued, “and then you would have three stars done. You don’t have to worry about any more contracts, really, for the rest of the offseason.”