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Super Bowl guide: 49ers-Chiefs picks, key stats, predictions

More Teams. More Games. Stephen A. Smith explains why he feels the Chiefs’ defense will be the reason they win Super Bowl LVIII vs. the 49ers. (1:45) Super Bowl LVIII kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, with the San Francisco 49ers facing the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs. This is a rematch of […]

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49ers’ defense won’t let mistakes continue in Super Bowl

HENDERSON, Nev. — More than a week after their NFC Championship Game comeback victory against the Detroit Lions, the San Francisco 49ers’ defense has moved on from a brutal postgame film session. After the Niners escaped with a 34-31 win against the Lions, the defensive film review offered a few examples of how they fell […]

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49ers’ Brock Purdy adding scrambling, comebacks to résumé

More Teams. More Games. Ryan Clark praises Brock Purdy for leading the 49ers to victory over the Lions in the NFC Championship Game. (2:03) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In the week before Sunday’s NFC Championship Game against the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy didn’t allow himself to go back to what happened […]

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Packers’ Jordan Love connects with Bo Melton, Tucker Kraft for TDs

After coming up with a pair of field goals on their first three trips inside the San Francisco 49ers’ 20-yard line, the Packers finally found the end zone on a 19-yard touchdown from quarterback Jordan Love to receiver Bo Melton to give the Packers a 13-7 lead with 9:27 left in the third quarter Saturday. […]

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San Francisco 49ers dodge upset, top Green Bay Packers

More Teams. More Games. The 49ers and Packers exchange the lead a few times in the second half as San Francisco advances to the NFC title game. (2:06) SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Christian McCaffrey scored his second touchdown on a 6-yard run with 1:07 to play, and the San Francisco 49ers mounted their first second-half […]

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How Packers’ Jordan Love is staying ‘level’ for playoff debut

That comes as no surprise to those who have watched Love all season. “I feel like he’s always on the same level,” Packers receiver Christian Watson said. “I think I’ve said this since the moment he got the job, that he has like a weird poise about him, even though he’s being thrown into a […]

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Ravens and 49ers rest Jackson and Purdy: Will it backfire?

More Teams. More Games. Stephen A. Smith says Lamar Jackson is the league MVP and that he and the Ravens have a better chance of winning the Super Bowl than the 49ers. (1:02) The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers decided to rest starting quarterbacks Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy in Week 18, continuing a […]

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With 49ers out, where will Vikings’ Kirk Cousins go in 2024?

For much of their NFL careers, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins and San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan have been the proverbial ships passing through the night. They’ll make another pass Monday night at U.S. Bank Stadium (8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC), the timing once again wrong for a long-anticipated but now almost certainly unattainable reunion. […]

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How PJ Walker and the Browns stunned the undefeated 49ers

More Teams. More Games. Jake Moody‘s field goal sails to the right, giving the Browns the win over the 49ers. (0:37) CLEVELAND — When PJ Walker found out he would start at quarterback for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday against the undefeated San Francisco 49ers, he called Cleveland’s backup quarterback from last season. Jacoby Brissett, […]

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2023 NFL Rank: Predicting top 100 players for this season

To create our list, we asked a panel of dozens of ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on performance expectations for the 2023 season as compared with their peers. Emphasis was placed solely on the upcoming season and predicting potential greatness, rather than past performance, career résumé or positional value. That means long-term injuries […]

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