{"id":850831,"date":"2026-04-03T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:54:26","slug":"49ers-brock-purdy-deserves-more-respect-says-ex-nfl-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/850831\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers’ Brock Purdy deserves more respect, says ex-NFL QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

As San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy<\/a> enters his fifth NFL season, he continues to face skepticism from critics who argue he is more a product of head coach Kyle Shanahan’s system than a true difference-maker at the position.<\/p>\n

Former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck strongly disagrees.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the Go Long podcast with Tyler Dunne, Hasselbeck made it clear that he believes Purdy is one of the league’s most underappreciated quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

“People don’t give respect to Brock Purdy the way he deserves respect,” Hasselbeck said (h\/t to Oliver G. of Niners Wire<\/a>). “That dude is a baller. And they love to use these other excuses, and I get it\u2014he doesn’t have this physical dominating presence when you meet him.”<\/p>\n

Hasselbeck noted that, based on appearance alone, some might mistake Purdy for a college\u2014or even high school\u2014quarterback. However, he emphasized that evaluations should go far beyond physical traits, and Purdy has shown he can play at an elite level.<\/p>\n

“He is as much of a baller as there is in the NFL when it comes to running the show as a quarterback, clutch factor, technique, accuracy, mobility, moxie. I don’t know why he doesn’t get the respect, I really don’t.”<\/p>\n

Hasselbeck also pointed to veteran wide receiver Mike Evans<\/a> choosing to join the 49ers despite a more lucrative offer to return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he played his first 12 NFL seasons.<\/p>\n

“Mike Evans, he’s on a good team, with a good quarterback, and he’s like, ‘You know, I want to go win a Super Bowl,'” Hasselbeck said. “He watches film all the time. What quarterback does he want to go play with? He wants to go play there.”<\/p>\n

Purdy is coming off an injury-shortened 2025 season. Despite starting just nine games, he threw for 2,167 yards, 20 touchdowns, and 10 interceptions, helping guide the 49ers to a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

Last offseason, San Francisco reinforced its commitment to Purdy, signing him to a five-year, $265 million contract extension that keeps him with the team through the 2030 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy enters his fifth NFL season, he continues to face skepticism from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2644,7,2812,700,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-850831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-brock-purdy","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kyle-shanahan","12":"tag-mike-evans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116339230020191897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}