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'Niners quarterback Brock Purdy expects to be throwing a football by June and could be on schedule to practice with few limitations when the San Francisco 49ers open training camp in late July.
Purdy, 23, had surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm earlier this month, but 49ers general manager John Lynch said the second-year quarterback would be in line to start if the season began now.
But the trouble with assessing Purdy in April is the only real measure of his progress comes when throwing begins.
'The protocol is you start throwing at three months, but it all depends on how your therapy and your range of motion and everything goes up until that point,' Purdy told the San Jose Mercury-News.
'There are definitely some boxes I have to check off first before I get to that point, but that's the plan as of now.'
Brock Purdy went from being the last pick of the last year's NFL draft to the Niners' starting QB in under less than a year, partially due to injuries sustained by the team's other QB options
Purdy will start throwing three months post surgery, having repaired his right UCL early April
Purdy made a stunning rise from being the last pick in the 2022 NFL Draft to leading the 49ers into the NFC Championship Game.
He said the size of the elbow brace he's wearing during the first part of his post-op rehab
