Brock Purdy explains why Ricky Pearsall wasn’t targeted as much for most of his games last season:
“In our offense there’s usually steps, timing, you’re breaking at a certain angle. Ricky was raw with his talent. He had to learn our system, our timing, where I’m throwing the ball. He’s got a lot of shimmy, which is great and we need that against man coverage to create separation, but there were times he had to learn that he can’t take a couple more steps and then break out. I need him there now. I need to get the ball out now. We had a couple of those moments…
That’s part of getting into the NFL and learning the system, and a quarterback and receiver talking and getting to know each other. It has gotten better for sure. Towards the end of the season last year you saw Ricky come out of his shell and play within our system, and timing.”