Although it isn't yet official, Brock Purdy's new contract extension appears to be settled, with the San Francisco 49ers and their quarterback agreeing to a massive deal worth up to $265 million over five years.
There will be plenty of room to debate whether this was the right move for the Niners in the long term, but Purdy's story of going from the last pick in the draft to one of the highest paid players in the NFL is certainly one to admire.
It is interesting to look back at the history of 49ers' players and see where Purdy ranks among the most rewarded players for the franchise all-time. So, with data from Over The Cap, here are the top five more lucrative contracts given out by San Francisco and where Purdy ranks on that last.
Note: The rankings are based on total value of the contract.
No. 5: WR Brandon Aiyuk, 2024, $120 million over 4 years ($30 APY)
The 49ers' first-round pick in 2020, Aiyuk quickly showed himself to be a valuable part of head coach Kyle Shanahan's offense, especially in his contract year, where he caught 75 passes for 1,342 yards and seven touchdowns.
That led to a drama-filled offseason in 2024, where Aiyuk demanded a trade and insisted the Niners weren't offering him a contract that met his perceived value.
In the end, both sides agreed to the deal in late August, but it put the receiver behind during training camp and he wasn't really ready to start the regular season, causing him to get off to a slow start to his campaign.
He was just beginning to show flashes of a return to form when he tore his ACL, meaning he'll miss a chunk of this year as well.
No. 4: LT Trent Williams, 2021, $138.06 million over 6 years ($23 APY)
The 49ers traded for Williams from Washington during the same draft that garnered Aiyuk, and masterfully moved from an all-time great in Joe Staley to another in the former first-round pick out of Oklahoma.
After that year, the Niners were able to re-sign him to the massive contract, one which he worked to renegotiate last offseason in another turbulent occasion from that summer, which tacked on more guaranteed money through 2026.
Like Aiyuk, Williams' 2024 season wasn't ideal, as he missed seven games due to injury. He'll look to bounce back this year as he enters the final two seasons of that deal.
No. 3: QB Jimmy Garoppolo, 2018, $150 million over 5 years ($27.5 APY)
It says a lot about the 49ers' recent quarterback situation that Garoppolo is still on this list seven years later. Almost as much as the contract itself said about the player at the time.
The 49ers, of course, traded for the former New England Patriots backup at the trade deadline in 2017, and Garoppolo proceeded to rattle off a five-game winning streak to end the season, giving fans massive hopes for the following year.
He was rewarded with this deal, one that committed to him for a few years, but made the former Eastern Illinois signal-caller a potential cap casualty within a year or two if things went sideways.
Garoppolo missed most of 2018 when he tore his ACL against the Kansas City Chiefs but bounced back to lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl the following season, another injury-plagued year in 2020, and then mentored Trey Lance in 2021, and came back, maybe against his will, in 2022 to do the same before being released after another injury led to Purdy's rise.
No. 2: EDGE Nick Bosa, 2023, $170 million over 5 years ($34 APY)
In terms of total value, Bosa's deal remains the highest ever for an edge rusher, although his APY is $6 million less than the Cleveland Browns' Myles Garrett's extension from this offseason.
But this is also the longest any of these deals has taken to get done for San Francisco, as it spilled well into training camp and actually didn't get signed until just days before the Niners' season opener that year.
The craziest part of the contract is how much of it was guaranteed, with 72 percent of the money on the deal coming to him no matter what, $88 million of which was granted at signing.
2023 was not a great follow-up to Bosa's Defensive Player of the Year campaign in 2022, as he fell from 18.5 sacks to 10.5 (which is still solid), and he had nine more sacks in 14 games last season.
More than anything, Bosa is showing that no matter how good he is, he can't do it alone.
No. 1: QB Brock Purdy, 2025, $265 over 5 years ($53 APY)
No big surprise here, as the guaranteed money ($181 million) surpasses Bosa's total value by $11 million. But it's a quarterback-driven league, and the 49ers are locked into their guy until 2030.
The details of the deal, which include a full no-trade clause and the bulk of the money (roughly 62 percent) in the first three years, are just beginning to come out, but it appears that both sides got what they wanted.
And, joy of joys, the deal got done in May, weeks before training camp, ensuring that the questions of whether the contract is coming won't overshadow the actual football.
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