Kyle Shanahan may have taken the Brock Purdy double-fake TD pass out of the Bill Walsh playbook

Hey, this is super neat if it’s the case!

On Thursday, we saw Mr. Not-So-Irrelevant-Anymore Brock Purdy pull off an awesome double-fake for a touchdown to tight end George Kittle, a play so smooth that it completely fooled the Seattle Seahawks as the rookie QB led the San Francisco 49ers to a victory and the NFC West crown.

Where did Kyle Shanahan get the play from? Thanks to some NFL historians on Twitter, we may have found an answer.

It looks exactly like a play run by Bill Walsh for Steve Young, who played at the time for … the 49ers!

How cool is that? Check it out:

First, it was Bill Walsh drawing it up for Steve Young and John Frank in 1987.

Then, it was Kyle Shanahan drawing it up for Brock Purdy and George Kittle in 2022.

(h/t: @cubs2b23 for the find) pic.twitter.com/jyTw7UQcLb

— Akash Anavarathan (@akashanav) December 16, 2022

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when you can just go back to the tapes…

Kyle Shanahan digs deep in the play book, and @brockpurdy13 and @gkittle46 execute.
@JasonMcCourty pic.twitter.com/WqN6iUfZyQ

— Good Morning Football (@gmfb) December 16, 2022

So cool!