Rich Eisen Weighs in on the Growing Intrigue Surrounding the 49ers’ Impending QB Competition

They expect Purdy to be back by training camp. Obviously, Sam Darnold is there. And the question is, what about Tray Lance? Rumors galore that Lance, they were, again, taking calls on him. They weren't making them. Big difference between making and taking phone calls. So they were taking phone calls on Lance. And as we all know, Lance is still on the team.

And I knew, look, if they're going to trade Tray Lance, it's going to be much later in the summer when they know what's going on with Purdy and what Sam Darnold looks like. And I'll tell you what, I don't know if they're going to trade Tray Lance because right now the coach in talking about Lance coming back from injury, not just with the ankle, but he had a hand injury going into last season that he believes this kid is as healthy as he's been in a long time. And listen to how he refers to him. You're refers to him as the best one that they currently have right now on the roster. I think Tray's the best one we've had right now. And yeah, we've got to get an OTAs in practice. But when you just watch his feet, his timing, how he's still on the ball, he's in such a better place now than he was last year at this time.

And I know he's coming off a big injury, but it's because he was healthier this year. Even though last year was a little injury with a hairline fracture on the pinky, but it healed the wrong way. And this year is a bad break on the ankle, but it healed right like most of them do. And now I just see him in such a better place. And now we'll present to him some football and stuff. When we get to OTAs, we're allowed nine of them and we'll put players out there and we'll see how he's playing. We'll let him in Sam Roll and then we'll evaluate all that.

And we'll take 40 days off and we'll see how we want to lay it out in training camp. Let him in Sam Roll. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. He's so damn unique about the San Francisco 49ers.

When you draft a kid third overall by trading up two first round picks and future drafts to go get them and he hardly plays for you, that normally means coach and general manager are history. But instead, what do they do? They made two straight NFC championship games without him. Crazy. And normally that team that makes two straight NFC championship game appearances will absolutely have the quarterback who took them there as their quarterback coming into the following season to see if they can make a third straight NFC championship game in heaven forbid the Super Bowl, especially if the guy who took them to their previous Super Bowl was the quarterback who took them to one of the NFC championship games and played so damn well that they were positioned to make it with a kid they chose in the last pick in the draft that they were forced to turn to. And he's now starting for the Vegas Raiders. And the kid that they turned to might not be the starter because he's coming back from injury. And so the kid that they start might be the kid that they went and moved up the draft third overall.

And if it doesn't work out, they'll go to the kid they draft last overall last year. It's unbelievable. There is no charted territory for us to base any opinion on it other than the fact that the coach knows what the hell he's doing. And so there's GM because this team is so incredibly talented that. Well, they drafted a kicker in the third round and tons of people batted an eyelash in the way I was pushing back as well. I know the kicker. He went to Michigan.

He's the best kicker Michigan's ever had. His name is Jake Moody and you've had your your setup everywhere else. You set up absolutely everywhere else. So unbelievable situation. There's no precedence for it. Catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free.

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