Is Brock Purdy the frontrunner for MVP? | The Exempt List
Yahoo Sports’ Charles McDonald is joined by ESPN’s Damien Woody on “The Exempt List” Podcast to discuss Brock Purdy’s impressive start to the season, and debate if he should be the frontrunner to win MVP this season through 5 weeks.
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Video Transcript
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CHARLES MCDONALD: Where would you rank Brock Purdy right now? Because I feel like that's been a big debate waging over the internet over the past week or so. Like how high are you on him?
DAMIEN WOODY: The way he's playing right now. He's playing like a top five quarterback.
CHARLES MCDONALD: Yeah.
DAMIEN WOODY: He really is. I know some people-- I think a lot of people-- some people won't admit it because of his draft status being that he was Mr. Irrelevant. But listen, yes, is Kyle Shanahan a genius play caller? Absolutely.
But you still got to have a guy to go out there and execute it. And I think he's opened the envelope even more for Kyle Shanahan and this offense. You just spoke about it. Like the difference between him and Jimmy G, listen, athletic ability, I think he's more athletic than Jimmy G.
He has a better arm and he's more accurate than Jimmy G. So that just opened up a whole different aspect of this 49ers offense. So right now, Brock Purdy is in the conversation for MVP.
CHARLES MCDONALD: Oh yeah. Yeah.
DAMIEN WOODY: He's in the conversation for MVP right now.
CHARLES MCDONALD: He might be the frontrunner right now, especially after that game on Sunday.
DAMIEN WOODY: He could be. I mean, listen, we know the MVP is a quarterback award, right? It's going to go to a quarterback. So who's playing better than him?
CHARLES MCDONALD: I mean, as far as in terms of just pure production, no one is.
DAMIEN WOODY: Right. Like I mean, people-- listen, Tua is putting up big numbers but Brock Purdy is putting up numbers and he's taking care of the football.
