Brock Purdy engagement post hits Instagram

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is entering the 2023 season as a fiancé. The 23-year-old popped the question to his girlfriend, Jenna Brandt, over the weekend in Saint Cloud, Florida.

Brandt shared photos of the proposal on Instagram with the caption: “WE GET TO DO LIFE TOGETHER… FOREVER!”

“Brock Purdy – I love everything about you & your heart for Jesus more than any words can say,” Brandt added.

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The couple met while they both played sports at Iowa State. While Purdy was slinging around the pigskin for the Cyclones, Brandt was setting her teammates up on the volleyball court.

Brandt was by the young quarterback’s side when the 49ers selected “Mr. Irrelevant” with the final pick in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft. She also saw him through what became a much more storied rookie season than most expected from Purdy last year.

Purdy on track for early-season return

Purdy took over the reins of the offense in Week 13 after Jimmy Garoppolo suffered an ankle injury. He thrived and took them through to playoffs before suffering a serious elbow injury in the NFC Championship game.

Despite the recency of his injury, according to NFL insider Tom Pelissero, Purdy could be ready to go as early as Week 1 this season for San Francisco.

“Everything is trending right now Rich for Brock Purdy being ready for the regular season,” Pelissero said on ‘The Rich Eisen Show’. “The question is just going to become how comfortable are the 49ers with putting him out there, and that’s going to depend in part on how he looks during the course of training camp and how much he can handle.”

Pelissero detailed Purdy’s progress, revealing that his trajectory is positive as heads toward not only just fully recovering from his elbow injury, but preparing his arm for the season.

“So he started throwing roughly a month ago and he’s been ramping it up since. He just got out to Jacksonville to work with Will Hewlett and Tom Gormely yesterday and those guys they worked with Brock before the draft, they ran Anthony Richardson‘s pre-draft prep year,” Pelissero said.

“It’s not just about continuing his rehab, but also working on his mechanics as he moves forward here. You wouldn’t be doing that, you wouldn’t be putting a two-week throwing program in late June and early July if you didn’t feel really good about the direction things are going.”