{"id":647536,"date":"2026-01-02T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:27:16","slug":"sam-darnold-week-18-preview-vs-the-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647536\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold Week 18 Preview vs. the 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Darnold has a favorable matchup when his Seattle Seahawks meet the San Francisco 49ers in Week 18 (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET). The 49ers concede 235.6 passing yards per game, eighth-worst in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Darnold leads Seattle with 3,850 passing yards (240.6 per game). Darnold has also posted a 67.2% completion percentage while throwing for 25 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. In the ground game, Darnold has tacked on 86 yards rushing on 29 attempts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62735?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1441&amp;pb=959275&amp;cid=SEcqcGYyA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch this game on Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/live\/1077-the-bone-5529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">107.7 The Bone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darnold vs. the 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Darnold vs the 49ers (since 2021): 3 GP \/ 199 PASS YPG \/ 3 PASS TD<br \/>\nSan Francisco has allowed four opposing players to record 300 or more passing yards in an outing this year.<br \/>\n15 players have thrown one or more TDs in a game against the 49ers this season.<br \/>\n10 opposing quarterbacks have thrown for two or more TDs in a game against San Francisco in 2025.<br \/>\nThe 49ers have allowed just three opposing players to throw for three or more TD passes in an outing this season.<br \/>\nThe 235.6 passing yards the 49ers concede per game makes them the 25th-ranked pass defense in the NFL this season.<br \/>\nSo far this year, the 49ers have allowed 29 passing TDs to their opponents, averaging 1.8 per game. That ranks 26th among NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62736?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1422&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=SEcqcGYyA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch every NFL touchdown with NFL RedZone on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Darnold Passing Insights<\/p>\n<p>Darnold has finished above his passing yards prop total in 11 of 16 opportunities this year.<br \/>\nThe Seahawks, who are second in NFL play in points scored, have passed 49.3% of the time while running 50.7%.<br \/>\nWith 451 attempts for 3,850 passing yards, Darnold is second in league action with 8.5 yards per attempt.<br \/>\nDarnold has completed at least one touchdown pass in 12 of 16 games, including multiple TDs eight times.<br \/>\nHe has 25 total touchdowns this season (58.1% of his team&#8217;s 43 offensive TDs).<br \/>\nDarnold has attempted 63 passes in the red zone (42.0% of his team&#8217;s red zone plays).<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=SEcqcGYyA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Darnold&#8217;s Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Darnold has a favorable matchup when his Seattle Seahawks meet the San Francisco 49ers in Week 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,61566,7,6,1878,1161,252,2624,2623,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-647536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-ds-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sam-darnold","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115824325076747390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647536","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=647536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}