{"id":287896,"date":"2023-08-26T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=287896"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:19:48","slug":"niners-qb-brock-purdy-on-trey-lance-being-traded-to-cowboys-im-really-happy-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/nfl\/niners-qb-brock-purdy-on-trey-lance-being-traded-to-cowboys-im-really-happy-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Niners QB Brock Purdy on Trey Lance being traded to Cowboys: &#x27;I&#x27;m really happy for him&#x27;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers quarterback room has been one of the main topics to follow this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>With Brock Purdy expected to be the starter in Week 1 after recovering from suffering a torn UCL in January and Sam Darnold winning the No. 2 spot in the depth chart earlier this week, San Francisco made a splash on Friday by trading Trey Lance to the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>The trade news was hours before San Francisco&#8217;s preseason finale against the Los Angeles Chargers at Levi&#8217;s Stadium. The 49ers lost 23-12 to the Chargers, ending the preseason with a 1-2 record.<\/p>\n<p>Purdy played in the team&#8217;s first two drives and finished 5 of 9 on 73 yards, including a five-yard rushing touchdown. When Purdy&#8217;s night was over, he addressed reporters, saying that he was &#8220;thankful&#8221; to have Lance as a teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Obviously, I love Trey, everything that he&#8217;s done for this organization and obviously for myself,&#8221; Purdy said of Lance, via the team transcripts. &#8220;I know I&#8217;ve told you guys a bunch of times before, but going in last year and then him just being by my side from the get-go sideline, meetings in the locker room, wherever we are at, man, he&#8217;s been a real one and helped me come into the league and welcome me with open arms and showed me the ropes to this whole thing. So can&#8217;t tell you how grateful I am for him and to have him in my life and to be here with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So forever grateful for Trey. Obviously, in terms of the situation, like happy for him that he&#8217;s able to go into a good situation and we all feel like it&#8217;s a good fit. But at the end of the day, I can&#8217;t say how thankful I am to have played and been a teammate with Trey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>          <span>            Related Links          <\/span>        <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>              2023 NFL preseason, Week 3: What We Learned from Friday&#x2019;s tripleheader            <\/li>\n<li>              Niners trade QB Trey Lance to Cowboys for fourth-round pick            <\/li>\n<li>              2023 NFL Preseason, Week 3: One thing to watch on each of the 32 teams            <\/li>\n<li>              Sam Darnold tabbed as 49ers&#x27; backup quarterback over Trey Lance            <\/li>\n<li>              Cowboys QB Dak Prescott: Not playing in preseason allowed me to focus on Week 1&#xA0;            <\/li>\n<li>              Niners HC Kyle Shanahan not stressed about DE Nick Bosa&#x27;s holdout: &#x27;I know they&#x27;re going to get it right&#x27;            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Darnold completed the game going 6 of 11 for 89 yards and one touchdown. Darnold discussed the QB competition against Lance after the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were doing everything that we could to earn that job,&#8221; Darnold said. &#8220;I think for me, as a competitor, you&#8217;re expected to want to win that job. For me, it was just going out there and playing really good football every single day. I knew that at the end of the day if I did that, I could be in a really good spot to earn that job. I wasn&#8217;t in my head at all. Ever. I wasn&#8217;t thinking that I have a really good chance to win this. I was just taking it one day at a time, one practice at a time, one game at a time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lance, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, was selected by the 49ers after San Francisco traded three first-round picks to Miami.<\/p>\n<p>After the preseason game, head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters that Lance expressed interest in a backup role on another team. San Francisco found a spot in Dallas that gives Lance an opportunity to potentially backup QB Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n<p>With Lance getting a fresh start in Dallas, Purdy is &#8220;happy&#8221; and &#8220;excited&#8221; for Lance&#8217;s next chapter in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was able to go over and just tell him that I love him and like I said, how appreciative of that I am of him,&#8221; Purdy said of Lance. &#8220;Everything that he&#8217;s done for obviously myself and the team. So told him that I&#8217;m really happy for him and excited to see what he does with his opportunity and his career in the NFL. So, excited for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lance will get a chance to return to the Bay Area in Week 5 when the Cowboys take on the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want to follow these storylines and more? NFL+ gives you the freedom to watch live out-of-market preseason games, daily coverage on NFL Network, the best NFL programming on-demand and much more! 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