{"id":275403,"date":"2025-08-09T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/275403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:50:09","slug":"2025-nfl-preseason-kicks-off-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/275403\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL preseason kicks off \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowThe San Francisco 49ers kick off the 2025 NFL preseason against the Denver Broncos on Saturday at Levi&#8217;s Stadium after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/mykel-williams-kyle-shanahan-joint-practice-denver-broncos\/1866515\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an intense joint practice<\/a> Thursday afternoon.The 49ers welcome some familiar faces back to Levi&#8217;s Stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/talanoa-hufanga-broncos-free-agency\/1866579\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including safety Talanoa Hufanga<\/a> and linebacker Dre Greenlaw, both of whom left San Francisco to join Denver in NFL free agency this offseason.NBC Sports Bay Area&#8217;s 49ers insider Matt Maiocco listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/nfl-preseason-game-2025-broncos-analysis\/1866380\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his five San Francisco players to watch<\/a> as roster battles continue in the secondary, along the defensive line, in the wide receivers room and in the backfield.Coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters Thursday that the 49ers &#8220;won&#8217;t play a ton&#8221; of their starters against the Broncos as San Francisco gears up for the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this live blog for the latest score updates, game highlights, news and analysis from Levi&#8217;s Stadium in Santa Clara:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowThe San Francisco 49ers kick off the 2025 NFL preseason against the Denver Broncos on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[51704,220,803,804,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-275403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-2025-nfl-preseason","9":"tag-49ers","10":"tag-49ers-highlights","11":"tag-49ers-live-blog","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115001257453813482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}