There's still no hard news on a contract extension for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. In fact, most offseason chatter around Purdy's contract has related to questions about whether the team will actually give him the extension in 2025.
ESPN's Adam Schefter has speculated the club may kick the can down the road and let Purdy play out his deal, allowing the 49ers to franchise tag him in 2026 and 2027. General manager John Lynch also told reporters at the NFL combine that there was "no guarantee" a deal with Purdy gets done.
Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer offered some optimism about Purdy's pending extension in a piece about the 49ers' offseason from a recent column. Breer wrote some of the things the 49ers still have going for them, and in the process left no question about the team's QB situation.
"That’s with Nick Bosa, Fred Warner, Trent Williams and Christian McCaffrey intact as All-Pro foundation pieces to build around and with a big contract for Brock Purdy coming," Breer wrote.
Perhaps there's nothing to Breer's inclusion of that line about Purdy's contract, but it's notable that someone as plugged in as Breer didn't leave Purdy's contract status as a cliffhanger in a piece laying out the things the 49ers have going right this offseason.
If Breer had an inkling that the 49ers might mess around and not extend Purdy this offseason it wouldn't have been tacked onto the list of positives for San Francisco in their relatively slow free agency period.
Getting Purdy's contract done is going to be key for a successful offseason in Santa Clara. If the 49ers get that deal hammered out it sets them up for the foreseeable future at the game's most important position. If they don't get that deal done, it puts massive question marks over that position and calls into question what the 49ers look like moving forward.
This article originally appeared on Niners Wire: NFL insider doesn't dance around potential for Brock Purdy contract
