{"id":412853,"date":"2025-10-02T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/412853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:40:15","slug":"rams-vs-49ers-see-who-the-experts-pick-to-win-week-5-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/412853\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams vs. 49ers: See who the experts pick to win Week 5 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> face a contentious divisional opponent in the San Francisco 49ers in Week 5.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the game will at least have a share of first place in the NFC West and could even take the top spot if the Seattle Seahawks also lose.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>L.A. looks healthy heading into the Thursday night showdown, but San Francisco is battling a lot of injuries and will be without starting quarterback Brock Purdy as well as top pass-catchers like Ricky Pearsall, Jauan Jennings and George Kittle.<\/p>\n<p>Rams head coach Sean McVay has a losing record against Kyle Shanahan&#8217;s 49ers (7-10 since 2017), but L.A. has won the past three matchups against San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Considering their history and the current makeup of each roster, most experts are taking the Rams at home. Only one of the expert picks took the 49ers on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Christopher Bumbaca: Rams<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/10\/01\/rams-vs-49ers-see-who-the-experts-pick-to-win-week-5-matchup\/86454976007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rams vs. 49ers: See who the experts pick to win Week 5 matchup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rams vs. 49ers: See who the experts pick to win Week 5 matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams face a contentious divisional opponent in the San Francisco 49ers in Week 5. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[2644,7,6066,10117,67561,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,2392,1161,252,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-412853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-brock-purdy","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-george-kittle","11":"tag-jauan-jennings","12":"tag-lorenzo-reyes","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-rams","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesrams","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rams","19":"tag-ricky-pearsall","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","22":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115301792080568661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412853","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=412853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}