Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
SANTA CLARA — There’s a school of thought that the next part of the evolution of Brock Purdy includes more of a gunslinger mentality.And while it’s true Purdy aspires to do those things on occasion, the takeaway Wednesday from the 49ers’ first day of training camp is that it’s the same old Brock.
“I think there’s a balance to that,” Purdy said Wednesday. “That is how we have success here as 49ers quarterbacks, being efficients, making the right decisions over and over again. Trying to be a super hero and make all these different kinds of throws, that’s not how we’re coached. It’s not how we win games here.The 49ers had yet to get an evaluation from coach Kyle Shanahan, but Purdy seemed to give his team a passing grade in terms of a start.
“There’s a guy that comes in and does the 3D motion-capture stuff and we honed in on my mechanics and tried to apply it to my on-field training and my hips and everything that goes into it, Purdy said. “I was in Jacksonville for a month and we were able to chip away from some things, whereas last year it was a couple of weeks and about my elbow rehab.”“Brock works really hard in the offseason,” Shanahan said. “We always joke about his baby Bosa legs. He builds those up, gets his strength.
“We think it was a hamstring,” Shanahan said. “It looked like he hyperextended a little bit. He was going about half speed it looked like. It was an unusual one . . . we’ve got to get an MRI.”McCaffrey didn’t take any offensive reps in 7-on-7 or full team team drills, leaving the carries to Elijah Mitchell, Jordan Mason and Kamon Hall. It’s all part of the plan for selected veterans, according to Shanahan.
“I think Deebo looks great,” Shanahan said. “I thought he looked great during OTAs and minicamp and I thought he looked better today.Dee Winters, a sixth-round pick out of TCU in 2023, was a standout in OTAs according to teammate Fred Warner and could work his way into some playing time with a strong training camp with Dre Greenlaw potentially out early in the season until his torn Achilles’ has healed.
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