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49ers camp: What we learned Tuesday about Brock Purdy, Jake Moody, Colton McKivitz

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SANTA CLARA – Where have Brock Purdy’s manners gone at dinner? Relax, this isn’t a dad joke about not resting his precious elbow on the table.

What you’re about to read is an example of Purdy’s persistence, at not just overcoming his throwing-elbow surgery in March but at overall improvement as the 49ers’ sure-fire starting quarterback.

“He’s not happy where he’s at. He’s constantly working on things,” right tackle Colton McKivitz said after Tuesday’s practice. “Even at the dinner table, talking about what he can work on.”

At dinner? “Yeah, he’s just talking about practice, man, talking about ‘ball,” McKivitz relayed.

Purdy indeed cats a determined-looking, all-ball veneer at practice. He finished his fourth session of camp Tuesday with touchdown passes to Deebo Samuel and Jauan Jennings in red-zone drills; he was 8-of-11 passing in full-team action.

Unlike last season’s rookie ways, Purdy did not celebrate by pretending to shoot guns with his hands or inject ice into his forearm’s veins. Instead, he knows there is much more work to do, beyond just getting surgically repaired right elbow ready, with six weeks until the season opener in Pittsburgh.

Purdy is completing 60 percent of his passes (30-of-50), and, more pertinent to any quarterback-competition chatter, he’s taken every first-string rep in his four practices, under the prescribed comeback plan of working two days on, then not throwing for two days.

Cornerback Isaiah Oliver is impressed, having been victimized by Purdy’s final pass Tuesday, when Jauan Jennings got free to catch almost a fade pass into the right side of the end zone.

“Just watching him on film from in the playoffs and watching now, it looks like he’s throwing the ball the same way to me,” said Oliver, who was with the Atlanta Falcons last year (when they beat Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers) but didn’t face Purdy until this past week.

“That’s really good for him and his confidence,” Oliver said of Purdy’s comeback. “It takes an extra step or two when coming back from injury. I have experience with that and I’ve talked to him about it. As long as he’s confident and it doesn’t hurt, then he’s definitely going to be a hell of a player.”

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