For 49ers’ Brock Purdy, speedy processing skills started with flag football
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For 49ers’ Brock Purdy, speedy processing skills started with flag football

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What accounts for Brock Purdy’s quick processing speed? “It was pretty wild.” Shawn said he thought that ability stemmed from flag football, which Brock and his younger brother, Chubba, played in Gilbert, Ariz., from age 5 to 12. Here's what to know “The ref is back there going, ‘One … two …’ so you’ve got to get rid of it fast,” Shawn said. And they were like, ‘What?’” Purdy’s high school coach, Preston Jones, said Brock was an advanced processor when Jones started coaching him as a sophomore. “He was our trigger guy on every single snap whether it was run or pass.” “Now, if Brock Purdy had gone to a different high school and didn’t do any of that stuff, he was still going to be an amazing kid, you know?” Jones continued.

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