PHILADELPHIA — He was Mr. Irrelevant, and he was a rookie in 2022, and yet there he was at the Linc, with what sounded like an entire city spewing venom at him and his 49ers, 60 minutes from his Super Bowl dream.
Then he tore the UCL in his throwing elbow. He couldn’t throw the ball, his Super Bowl dream shattered.
It is three years later, and this time it isn’t an NFC Championship game, but this time Brock Purdy can return the favor and shatter the back-to-back Super Bowl dreams of the Jalen Hurts-Saquon Barkley Eagles.
Purdy came back and lost a Super Bowl the next year to Patrick Mahomes, and he comes back now as the 49ers’ $265 million man, and he comes back now after missing eight games this season with turf toe.
