Brock Purdy’s elbow rehabilitation is progressing to its next step, a month before the 49ers open training camp.
Purdy headed Monday to Jacksonville, Fla., where he will throw under the guidance of private quarterbacks coach Will Hewlett and orthopedic specialist Tom Gormely, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported.
That follows the plan Purdy outlined a month ago, when he began throwing a football for the first time since his March 10 surgery that repaired his torn ulnar collateral ligament with an internal brace.
Purdy’s recovery timeline puts him in line to gain full clearance by the 49ers’ regular-season opener Sept. 10 at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“I want to just make sure my mechanics and everything are right,” Purdy said May 23 of his goals in Jacksonville. “So, I’ll go down, work with them for a couple of weeks, and then get back here.”
Purdy spent last weekend up the coast from Jacksonville in Savannah, Ga. He worked out last year in Jacksonville with Hewlett, before the 49ers selected him with the 262nd and final pick of the draft — and before he produced eight wins until getting hurt in the NFC Championship Game.
“I knew pretty early on he had some special traits, just by the way he approached his training, some of the improvements he made right off the bat,” Hewlett said on The Jim Rome Show in January. “He is really aggressive in terms of his approach at working on the little details at being a great quarterback. … His ability to take on new technique changes in his release or changes in his footwork, then sit back and be critical of his own areas he needed to improve on, that all immediately stood out.”
Trey Lance and Sam Darnold took the majority of snaps in the offseason program, giving the 49ers options if Purdy’s arm is not ready or undergoes a setback. Both Lance and Darnold took part last week in Tight End University, co-founded by 49ers tight end George Kittle and held at Vanderbilt University.
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