Do 49ers still have ‘training wheels’ on Brock Purdy after return from injury?

The San Francisco 49ers improved to 9-4 ahead of their Week 14 bye by notching three straight wins after starting quarterback Brock Purdy returned from a toe injury. 

During a Thursday appearance on San Francisco Bay Area sports radio station KNBR, 49ers general manager John Lynch suggested that Purdy showed in San Francisco’s 26-8 win over the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 30 that there are no restrictions regarding how the signal-caller can play on Sundays. 

Brock Purdy has had “training wheels” removed?

“Just look at the Cleveland game,” Lynch explained, per David Bonilla of 49ers WebZone. “We’re in there, in cold weather, and the first two plays of the game are bootlegs. And so, I think those training wheels have been off. Once Brock came back and played…action shows you better than anything. And so, he did it in practice. But then, how’s he going to respond in a game? I think, for Brock — I’ve been there as a player —you’ve got to kind of feel it yourself. And early in that first game back, he showed us that he was good.”

Against the Browns, Purdy used his legs to score a touchdown before he showed off some impressive dance moves.