{"id":92528,"date":"2025-09-14T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=92528"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:23:50","slug":"49ers-add-former-mvp-qb-as-backup-to-mac-jones-with-brock-purdy-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=92528","title":{"rendered":"49ers add former MVP QB as backup to Mac Jones with Brock Purdy injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>49ers add former MVP QB as backup to Mac Jones with Brock Purdy injured originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco 49ers find themselves in a position no team wants.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Week 2, and they&#8217;re down to their backup quarterback. Brock Purdy is out with a toe injury, and Mac Jones will start.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They also needed a new backup quarterback, and that&#8217;s where a Saturday roster move came into play.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers have promoted Adrian Martinez to the active roster. If Jones has to leave Sunday&#8217;s game, Martinez will make his NFL debut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>The newest Shedeur Sanders rumor isn&#8217;t even true<\/p>\n<p>The bright side for the 49ers is that the athletic Martinez won the MVP award in the UFL, showing he can get the job done in professional football, albeit at a lower level of play.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was a promising recruit when he went to Nebraska out of high school, but he had a few too many turnovers and a few too few wins at the college level to seem like he reached all his potential.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s grinded it out and has found a way to stick on the fringes of the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez spent most of the summer with the New York Jets before he was cut and came to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Cowboys&#8217; Micah Parsons trade already looks like a generational mistake<\/p>\n<p>In Week 1, Martinez was a practice squad player, but the injury to Purdy forced a move.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers only had the two active roster QBs last week, and that&#8217;ll be true again this week, just shifted one spot down on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Shanahan and company sure would like to keep Jones on the field and not worry about Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>But now Martinez is just one moment away from taking an NFL field. It&#8217;s a big moment in his personal journey, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco gets some experience from a different pro league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":92532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3617,2688,84,368,1232,3638,118,1207,9,3272,90,12,1532],"class_list":["post-92528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-adrian-martinez","tag-backup-quarterback","tag-brock-purdy","tag-cowboys","tag-mac-jones","tag-martinez","tag-micah-parsons","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-roster-move","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-shedeur-sanders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>49ers add former MVP QB as backup to Mac Jones with Brock Purdy injured - 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