{"id":653803,"date":"2026-01-04T17:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653803\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:50:24","slug":"49ers-playoff-picture-who-could-sf-face-after-loss-to-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653803\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers playoff picture: Who could SF face after loss to Seahawks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers<\/a> had a chance to win the NFC West and enter the postseason as the top seed in the conference, but a 13-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday ended that dream.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 49ers<\/a>‘ seed and playoff opponent will be determined by another game during the Week 18 slate on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco is currently the fifth seed in the NFC, and they could stay there if the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> beat the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> on Sunday. In that scenario, the 49ers would take on either the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> or the Carolina Panthers<\/a> in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

However, if the Rams win, Kyle Shanahan’s team would fall to the sixth seed and take on either the Chicago Bears<\/a> or the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n

A matchup with either of the NFC South teams would be much better for the 49ers than a rematch with the Bears (after barely squeaking out a 42-38 win in Week 17) or a date with the defending Super Bowl champions.<\/p>\n

More 49ers: Lots of bad, little good in 49ers’ dreadful Week 18 loss to Seahawks<\/a><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Niners Wire: 49ers playoff picture: Who could SF face after loss to Seahawks?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers had a chance to win the NFC West and enter the postseason as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,390,260,391,7,2812,58,78812,1593,6,109,1161,252,2624,2623,261,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-653803","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-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-chicago-bears","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-kyle-shanahan","14":"tag-los-angeles-rams","15":"tag-nfc-south-teams","16":"tag-nfc-west","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","21":"tag-sanfrancisco","22":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","23":"tag-seattle-seahawks","24":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115838099524286651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653803","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=653803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}