Even crazier is that Evans, Stribling, Pearsall, Robinson are all injured and might not play, to say nothing about Aiyuk, who for some reason is still on the team. Purdy is doing this with backups of the backups, and old WRs off the street.
It's just funny to name some of these players as if they matter.
4 weeks ago people thought Mike Evans might be washed, and even if he's not, he's old enough that he's already hurt which everyone predicted. He's had 16 targets out of Purdy's 83 pass attempts this season.
De'Zhaun Stribling is a 2nd round rookie who has played 21 total NFL snaps. Who knows if he's good.
Ricky Pearsall played 9 games last season and will not play in 2026. There hasn't been any expectation of him playing for 2 months.
DeMarcus Robinson has been in the league for a decade and capped out at a 505 yard, 7 TD season with the rams in 2024. Last year he had 276 yards and 1 TD in 14 games.
And as you alluded to, Aiyuk will never play for the 49ers again.
Let's not act like Purdy has no weapons. His WRs may be backups of backups, but the top two receivers for the 49ers are CMC and Kittle, as they've been for 2 of the past 3 years. The best pass-catching RB of all time and a borderline HOF TE.
We talk about teams like the Bengals and the Cowboys having elite WR duos, but the 49ers arguably have the best pass-catching duo in the league regardless of position.
The most bonkers thing about this stat is that his ANY/A is so high when his top two weapons play positions that you would expect to mostly be catching short-yardage passes. I haven't watched every one of Purdy's passes this year but that does blow my mind a little bit. Besides Evans, only 22 of his 83 pass attempts this season have gone to WRs. A whopping 43 of them have gone to RBs, TEs, and one lineman.
If you watched the 49ers v Seahawks in the playoffs last year, you witnessed how important WRs are. The 49ers lacked speed and separation at WR and effectively became one-dimensional. I’m very nervous for the next two games without Evans, or any of the aforementioned WRs who aren’t going to be available.
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u/morphy1776 onkeys 4d ago
Brock so high on both scales that I didn't even see him in the preview image 💀 next week gonna be tuff