San Francisco 49ers star quarterback Brock Purdy was famously the final pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, but it sounds like head coach Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers almost didn’t select him.
During a recent interview with Peter King for his Football Morning in America column, Kyle Shanahan opened up a little bit about the process that led up to the team selecting Brock Purdy with the final pick in the seventh round, revealing that other coaches wanted him to select other players instead.
“I was sure Brock was worthy of the fourth round, and we put a fourth-round grade on him,” Shanahan told Peter King. “There was no way we could take him for our team. But we’re sitting there in the seventh, and all these picks go by, he’s still there. That’s when I get to hear our linebacker coaches, all the scouts, other coaches, everybody who’s talking, saying things like: ‘I can’t believe my guy is still there in the seventh! I love this guy. Or, We got all these needs! You traded those ones last year! We don’t need a quarterback to be our third guy. Or, Kyle! We can still get him as a free agent. He’s not gonna get drafted.’ I mean, it’s all coming down on me,” Shanahan told King.
