San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Brock Purdy, the last choice in the 2022 National Football League Draft, has become synonymous with errors in the evaluation of NFL players. The president of the team, Al Guido, hopes that his organization can lean on artificial intelligence to improve talent assessment, both for football and for football.
Purdy, who led the 49 people to the Super Bowl last year, fell on the 262 -general choice, partly because scouting statistics did not identify any properties that have made him a successful Quarterback.
Scouting is even more difficult for football, Guido told CNBC Sport in an interview of Radio Row in New Orleans for Super Bowl 59 (The 49ers' property group is the owner of Leeds, the English football club.) That is because football is a worldwide sport, Played in dozens of competitions with different levels of competition.
“You could grow up everywhere and actually get to an English Premier League team,” said Guido. “So what do you think of from an advanced statistics perspective, to your reconnaissance department, to how you are us for all the different statistics that will determine what a good player looks like?”
Traditional scouting marry “The Science”, both for football and the NFL, has become a core principle of the evaluation process of the 49 people, Guido said.
Purdy is for a contract extension in this season. Guido refused to offer a timeline for a new deal, although he said, “I am sure it will work out itself.”
