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A bunch of predictions for the #49ers 2023 season.
The 49ers on Wednesday officially begin their week of practice ahead of Sunday’s season opener in Pittsburgh.
That means it is officially time to drop some predictions! Get excited.
San Francisco should be good again this year in their quest to get over the NFC championship hump that’s thwarted them in each of the last two seasons. With that comes some mostly rosy outlooks on the season ahead.
Here are a bunch of our predictions for the 49ers’ 2023 campaign:
Find out who national pundits are favoring in the matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and San Francisco 49ers.
The Los Angeles Chargers are 7.5-point underdogs to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 10 of the 2022 regular season. The over/under is 45.5 points, per Tipico Sportsbook.
That means oddsmakers are taking bets on whether the two teams will combine to score more than or fewer than 45.5 points.
My score prediction for the game is a 28-21 win for the 49ers, with a combined total of 49 points. So if I were putting money behind my prediction, I’d bet the over.
As for game picks, analysts favor Kyle Shanahan’s Niners in this primetime showdown.
| Expert | Pick |
| Nate Davis (USA Today) | 49ers |
| Jarrett Bell (USA Today) | 49ers |
| Mike Clay (ESPN) | 49ers |
| Matt Bowen (ESPN) | 49ers |
| Pete Prisco (CBS Sports) | 49ers |
| Bill Bender (Sporting News) | Chargers |
| Gregg Rosenthal (NFL Media) | 49ers |
| Bleacher Report | 49ers |
Sunday’s game will begin at 5:20 p.m. PT and will be televised on NBC.
Some predictions for the 49ers’ 2022 season from @KyleAMadson and @nicholasmcgee24:
The 49ers open their 2022 season in Chicago on Sunday. It’ll be time for the speculation to end and the analysis of what we’re all seeing on the field to begin.
That being said, there’s still some room for speculation, which means it’s time to make some predictions. We sat down and went through everything we know about the 49ers based on last season, this offseason and the preseason to jot down a handful of predictions that are almost certain to be correct.
(Note: We recommend they still play out the season just in case)
Here are our Niners Wire staff predictions:
Holding ourselves accountable on some good and not-so-good #49ers predictions from before the year.
The 49ers’ 2021 season was bizarre. There was the quarterback situation, Brandon Aiyuk’s start, a perpetually banged up backfield on both sides of the ball and a run to the NFC championship game despite all that.
We went back through our predictions from before the year and fell victim to some of the weirdness with several predictions missing the mark by a wide margin. On the other hand, we hit some right on the head.
Let’s hold ourselves accountable and run back through our pre-season guesses:
Prediction time! 9 predictions for the #49ers’ 2021 season.
It’s prediction time!
The 49ers open their 2021 regular season in Detroit on Sunday, which means the time is upon us to put official predictions down on paper for posterity. Chances are some of these will be wrong, but there’s a chance that some of them are right. And if we’re not living for the hope that a prediction we put on the internet comes true, then what do we really have, ya know?
Anyway, predictions for the 49ers’ 2021 season:
