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All about Brock Purdy, 49ers quarterback leading San Francisco in Super Bowl LVIII
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As the San Francisco 49ers prepare to take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII for the 2024 NFL championship, take a look at the improbable story of starting Niners quarterback Brock Purdy.
The 24-year-old, who set records at Iowa State after receiving Player of the Year honors at Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, is attempting to become the third quarterback after Joe Montana and Steve Young to lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl victory and the franchise’s sixth Lombardi Trophy.
What are Brock Purdy’s stats for this NFL season?
While Purdy led the league in passer rating during the 2023 regular season, he has struggled a bit in the postseason. However, Purdy has come up clutch with both his passing and his running to lead the 49ers to back-to-back comeback victories in both the NFC Divisional and NFC Championship playoff games.
2023 Passing
| STATS | CMP | ATT | PCT | YDS | YDS/G | TD | INT | RATE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Season | 308 | 444 | 69.4 | 4280 | 267.5 | 31 | 11 | 113.0 |
| Post Season | 43 | 70 | 61.4 | 519 | 259.5 | 2 | 1 | 87.7 |
After being selected by the 49ers with the 262nd and final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, The third-string Purdy threw his first regular season passes in the 4th quarter of a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on October 23, 2022. He became the starter at quarterback in Week 13 following injuries to both Trey Lance and Jimmy Garappolo.
He led the team to an NFC West title and victories in the Wild Card and Divisional games, becoming only the third quarterback since 1970 to win two playoff games in his rookie season.
In the NFC Championship, Purdy tore the ulnar collateral ligament of his elbow after getting hit on a pass in the first quarter of the 31-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Where did Brock Purdy go to college?
Purdy began his college career as a third-string freshman for Iowa State and became the starter after one starter was injured and the other was ineffective. Purdy finished the 2018 season completing 146 of 220 passes for 2,250 yards, 16 touchdowns, and seven interceptions over eight games, leading the Cyclones to a 7-2 record. He also rushed for five touchdowns on 308 yards.
During his time at Iowa State, Purdy was a three-time All-Big 12 quarterback and set dozens of school passing records. During his four years there, Iowa State had four consecutive winning seasons for the first time since the 1920s.
What are Brock Purdy’s contract details?
Brock Purdy’s rookie contract pays him $3.7 million over four years. His salary cap hit of $889,000 ranks 67th in the NFL among quarterbacks and 1,406th among all players. A Super Bowl win would trigger a league-standard $164,000 bonus.
By comparison, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes holds an NFL-record 10-year deal worth $450 million and a salary cap that tops the league.
Tale of the Bank: Super Bowl starting QBs
| BROCK PURDY | PATRICK MAHOMES | |
|---|---|---|
|
Contract |
4-yr/$3.7M |
10-yr/$450M |
|
2023 cap hit |
$889K |
$37M |
|
2023 cap QB rank |
67th |
1st |
|
2023 pct of cap |
0.4% |
16.5% |
Who did Brock Purdy replace on the 49ers?
Trey Lance, the 49ers first-round pick in 2021, was named the starter for the 2022 season over Jimmy Garoppolo with Purdy beating out veteran Nate Sudfeld for the third-strong role. In the second game, Lance suffered an ankle injury and was lost for the season. After Garoppolo injured his foot in Week 13 against the Miami Dolphins, Purdy came in to finish a 33-17 win, becoming the first “Mr. Irrelevant” to throw a touchdown pass in a regular season game.
In wins against Tampa Bay and Seattle, Purdy became the only second player in NFL history, after Aaron Rodgers, to record a quarterback rating of 115 or greater in his first two starts.
Who is Brock Purdy’s fiancée, Jenna Brandt?
Brock Purdy became engaged to his girlfriend Jenna Brandt in July 2023 after originally meeting as students at Iowa State. Brandt played on the Cyclones volleyball team and later transferred to play for the University of Northern Iowa in 2021.
Brandt is a native of Sumner, Iowa where she grew up with her parents, Kevin and Amy Brandt, and siblings Kaylyn, Isaiah and Morgan.
Purdy and Brandt announced they were a couple on social media in November of 2022. In July 2023, Purdy popped the question to her on a dock in Saint Cloud, Florida.
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What do we know about Brock Purdy’s family?
Brock is the middle child of Shawn and Carrie Purdy of Queen Creek, Arizona. His older sister Whitney Purdy played softball at Southeastern University while his younger brother Preston “Chubba” Purdy has played football as quarterback for Florida State and Nebraska. Last month, Chubba Purdy announced he would transfer to San Jose State but a week later he announced he would instead commit to play at Nevada.
The House Ethics Committee, which has been conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct and obstruction allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, scheduled a vote for Friday on whether to release its report, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s work.
Hours after President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to nominate Gaetz to be attorney general, Gaetz resigned his congressional seat, effective immediately.
“I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress, to pursue the position of Attorney General in the Trump Administration,” Gaetz said in his resignation letter obtained by CBS News
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that there was about an eight-week period during which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could fill his seat by setting the date for a special election.
Now that Gaetz has resigned, it is unclear whether the panel will vote on releasing the report, since Gaetz is no longer in Congress.
There is precedent in Congress on the Senate side for an ethics committee report to become public after a member resigns from Congress, however. In 2011, this happened when Sen. John Ensign of Nevada resigned amid allegations that he tried to hide an extramarital affair.
But it’s not clear that that would apply to the House, leaving open the possibility that the report on Gaetz would not be released.
In June, the House Ethics Committee released a statement saying it was investigating a range of allegations against Gaetz, including sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and bribery.
Multiple sources at the time told CBS News that four women had informed the House Ethics Committee that they had been paid to go to parties that included sex and drugs, and that Gaetz had also attended. The committee has Gaetz’s Venmo transactions that allegedly show payments for the women.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has called the committee’s investigation a “frivolous” smear campaign.
Some of the allegations of sexual misconduct under review by the committee were also the subject of a previous Department of Justice probe into Gaetz. Federal investigators sought to determine if Gaetz violated sex trafficking and obstruction of justice laws, but no charges were filed.
The House Ethics Committee resumed its investigation into Gaetz in 2023, following the Justice Department’s decision not to pursue charges against him.
Gaetz has long blamed then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, also a Republican, for the probe. And Gaetz later led the movement to sack McCarthy as speaker.
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