The 49ers facility may be a far cry from Stratton Oakmont, but one artist didn’t see it that way Tuesday.
Hours after it was reported Monday that the 49ers would be retaining Jimmy Garoppolo for the 2022 season, Rita Carvalho, a 25-year-old artist who resides in Portugal, continued her 209-day streak of illustrating the veteran quarterback until San Francisco trades him. For Tuesday’s inspiration, she looked to Leonardo DiCaprio’s turn as the controversial Jordan Belfort in 2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
In the illustration, the 30-year-old Garoppolo is seen channeling Belfort, who, in the film, told his company he wasn’t leaving. Unlike the Martin Scorsese production, Carvalho’s piece doesn’t include expletives, but simply has Garoppolo stating, “I’m not leaving!” and “The show goes on!”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Paramount/Courtesy Everett ColGaroppolo, who was widely expected to be out of San Francisco after the 2021 season, agreed to a reworked one-year deal with the team to serve as a backup to Trey Lance.
Though it remains to be seen what will happen during the upcoming season, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said Tuesday that Lance, the team’s first-round pick in 2021, is excited about Garoppolo’s return.
“When I told Trey that Jimmy was going to come back it’s like, ‘Awesome,’” Shanahan said on a conference call, according to NBC Sports. “‘That dude was awesome for me last year. I can’t wait to be the same way.’ Trey was great.”
49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo in January 2022. Getty ImagesAs for Carvalho, who has depicted Garoppolo as Buzz Lightyear and Baby from “Dirty Dancing,” among other pop culture icons, she told USA Today Sports + this week that she’ll “continue to draw him every day, as long as it makes sense for me.”
“I think people were expecting a response on whether I would continue to draw Jimmy or not,” Carvalho said. “So today’s drawing was my way of saying that the Jimmy G series is not over yet and I’ll continue to draw him every day, as long as it makes sense for me.”
Garoppolo’s one-year deal with San Francisco includes a fully guaranteed base salary of $6.5 million with the opportunity to make $10 million more in incentives should he start, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.



