Shanahan likes Purdy’s progress after office window assessment

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers have not yet held their first open practice of training camp, but Brock Purdy is looking like himself according to coach Kyle Shanahan. "He looks like Brock," Shanahan said Tuesday. "We don't get to see a lot because we're not out there in person with him, but [I saw] the videos he sent me in my 40 days away. And I'm allowed to watch from my [office] window, so I got to see that pretty good this morning." While neither general manager John Lynch nor the head coach would venture so far as to say their young quarterback is "ahead of schedule" from surgery on the ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow, Purdy has been fully cleared and will not start training camp on the physically unable to perform list (PUP). The 49ers brass, however, is clear its young play-caller will be on a pitch count going forward, and Purdy will not throw three days in a row during camp. "I always thought in my mind, just so I wouldn't be disappointed, that it would take a few weeks of camp," Shanahan said. "But he always looked like he would be ready because you didn't see any setbacks." Both Lynch and Shanahan gave a lot of credit to Purdy's surgeon, Dr. Keith Meister, as...