Colin Cowherd raises eyebrows on 49ers potentially paying ‘big money’ to Brock Purdy.

The San Francisco 49ers have the 31st pick in the NFL Draft when Round 1 begins April 27 in Detroit.

The 49ers own 10 total picks in the seven-round draft.

That includes a fourth-round pick they received from the Dallas Cowboys in last summer’s trade of Trey Lance and four compensatory selections.

Their original fourth-round pick was moved to the end of that round because of an accounting error that also cost them their 2025 fifth-round pick.

The 49ers are prepared to make Brock Purdy the highest-paid player in the NFL next year when he’s eligible for a contract extension.

Once upon a time, the 49ers made Jimmy Garoppolo the highest-paid player in the NFL, a decision that backfired on them because he never became a top-tier quarterback.

At best, he was a second-tier quarterback when healthy. Now, he’s a backup quarterback.

Second-tier quarterbacks get paid tons of money — just look at Dak Prescott and Kirk Cousins.

But they don’t win Super Bowls when they get paid tons of money because they can’t live up to their ridiculous contracts.

Let’s list all the quarterbacks who are firmly in tier 1: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Matthew Stafford, C.J. Stroud and Aaron Rogers.

Those are the seven best quarterbacks in the world, the seven quarterbacks who would deserve to be the highest-paid player in the league at any given time.

Here’s tier 2 (in no particular order): Prescott, Cousins, Brock Purdy, Jordan Love, Justin Herbert, Tua Tagovailoa, Jared Goff, Jalen Hurts, Trevor Lawrence, Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray.