As a quarterback, leading your team to a Super Bowl is one of the great achievements in the NFL.
With 32 teams vying for just two spots, it is often a hard slog to reach the pinnacle of the sport. So much so that in 58 seasons of the Super Bowl era, 12 of the 32 teams have never won it.
Plenty of outstanding players at the all-important position such as Philip Rivers, Tony Romo, Warren Moon and Randall Cunningham never found themselves competing in the big dance at all throughout their distinguished careers. Hall-of-Famers like Dan Marino and Jim Kelly got close but fell at the final hurdle.
In just his second season, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy can already say he’s led his team to a Super Bowl.
In his first season (2022), Purdy led San Francisco to a conference championship game, which the 49ers lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. In that game, Purdy sustained a painful elbow injury which forced him to the sideline.
Yet despite this early success and the 21-5 record (regular season and playoffs) as the 49ers’ starting quarterback, there’s a somewhat strange discourse surrounding Purdy that has followed him all throughout this season.
