The San Francisco quarterback is one of the lowest paid at his position in the NFL. That has allowed his team to surround him with talent<\/p>\n
After leading the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> to the NFC Championship Game as a rookie last season and following that up by taking them all the way to this Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl, quarterback Brock Purdy has made a mockery of the \u201cMr Irrelevant\u201d<\/a> label he was slapped with as the 262nd \u2013 and last \u2013 overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft.<\/p>\n This past regular season the 24-year-old ranked fifth in total passing yards (4,280) \u2013 one spot higher than his upcoming Super Bowl opponent Patrick Mahomes<\/a> (4,183) \u2013 third in passing touchdowns (31 \u2013 again beating out Mahomes, who had 27) and first in passer rating (113.0).<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The San Francisco quarterback is one of the lowest paid at his position in the NFL. That has allowed his team to surround him with talent After leading the San Francisco 49ers to the NFC Championship Game as a rookie last season and following that up by taking them all the way to this Sunday\u2019s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}