San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is off to an outstanding start to his NFL career. The Iowa State product hasn’t lost as a starter in the regular season, compiling a 10–0 record. He’s completed 69.3% percent of his passes for 2,645 yards with 22 touchdown passes and only four interceptions.
Purdy’s performance has been so impressive that it inspired Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to make a baffling comparison. During Jones’s weekly appearance on Dallas’s 105.3 The Fan, he said Purdy reminded him of former Cowboys quarterback (and later offensive coordinator) Kellen Moore.
“When I see Purdy perform the way he does, I immediately go in my mind to Kellen, and I think of how outstanding a quarterback Kellen was,” Jones said on the K&C Masterpiece show, per Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports.
Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones just compared Brock Purdy's quarterbacking to Kellen Moore's.
— Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) October 13, 2023
"When I see Purdy perform the way he does, I immediately go in my mind to Kellen and I think of how outstanding a quarterback Kellen was," Jerry told @1053thefan. "You might say well…
“You might say, well, does he have the arm talent, or does he have the size or does he have the speed?” Jones continued. “Yet Kellen won [50 of 53] college games. Purdy didn’t quite have that kind of number, but boy, do they know how to play football.”
Purdy already has far surpassed Moore’s accomplishments as an NFL quarterback. Moore only started two games as a pro, losing both. He completed 58.7% of his passes for 779 yards with four touchdowns and six interceptions. Also, he wasn’t even drafted, signing as a free agent with the Lions in 2012 (although Purdy was selected with the very last pick in 2022).
Jones is correct about Moore having a spectacular college career. His Boise State teams went 50–3 while he completed 69.8% of his passes for 14,667 yards, 142 touchdowns and 28 interceptions.
But to hear Jones tell the story, Moore enjoyed a career like Tony Romo’s in Dallas. He seems to still be enamored with Moore despite allowing him to leave the Cowboys and join the Chargers earlier this year.
