During a recent appearance on San Francisco sports radio station KNBR, 49ers reporter Cam Inman of the Bay Area News Group offered a timeline for when the club should want to get the Purdy deal done with the 25-year-old now in the final year of his inexpensive rookie contract.

Brock Purdy will eventually receive a substantial raise from his current rookie contract. Until then, he earned a notable boost on Wednesday. NFL Network's Mike Garafolo shared a chart of 25 players who earned the most performance-based pay from an NFL program aimed at rewarding lower-compensated

NFL teams benefit greatly when their players drafted outside for the first couple of rounds or so perform right way. Impact production for cheap, relatively speaking, allows contending squads to compete for Super Bowls for an extended amount of time.