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Robert Zeglinski

Jerry Rice thinks Brock Purdy is genuinely comparable to Joe Montana in the most important ways

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In his first full season as the San Francisco 49ers’ starting quarterback, Brock Purdy has turned a lot of heads. He’s played like a legitimate MVP candidate and might be the reason why San Francisco eventually wins its first Super Bowl championship in roughly three decades.

And according to Jerry Rice — unquestionably the greatest receiver ever to play football — Purdy is so good that he deserves to be compared to former 49ers’ Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana. I mean … wow.

During the latest episode of The Warner House, a podcast hosted by 49ers All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner, Rice discussed what makes Purdy so special. The NFL’s all-time leading receiver went as far as to say that Purdy has the same exact nerves of steel that Montana once did en route to winning four Super Bowls with the 49ers in the 1980s.

You can find this glowing endorsement starting at 22:42 in the video below:

Rice probably isn’t wrong in his assessment. Even on a loaded team rife with star players, Purdy already has a 42-11 career touchdown-to-interception ratio. He’s already got two playoff wins. And he’s one of the league’s most efficient quarterbacks. Full stop.

At this stage, all that’s probably left for Purdy to accomplish is capturing a Super Bowl crown, which admittedly feels inevitable on the best team in professional football.

This was how Twitter reacted to Rice's comparison of Purdy to Montana

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