Niners Nation
Two times wasn’t enough.
For the third time since the Seahawks joined the NFC West, the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks meet for the third time in the span of a season, this time with a Divisional Round Saturday night date at Lumen Field.
The regular-season schedule for these two teams was an odd one, with the NFC West rivals opening and closing the season against each other. Now, one will take the honors of ending the other’s season with a postseason victory.
With these two teams meeting only two weeks ago, there are plenty of numbers you already know. This week, we will look at a few numbers that stood out from the two games both sides have already played, with the rubber match pending for Saturday. These are the numbers to know for the third and final game of the 2025 trilogy between the 49ers and Seahawks:
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Sam Darnold threw zero touchdowns in the two games against the 49ers.
Darnold had only five games in 2025 in which he finished without a touchdown pass, and the 49ers were responsible for 40 percent of those games. Now, you’d feel better about that stat if the 49ers swept the season series, but Seattle has managed poor Darnold performances well this season, going 3-2 in the games where he’s without a passing touchdown.
Not only have they prevented Darnold from finding the end zone (and more impressively, prevented Jaxon Smith-Njigba from finding the end zone), but two of Darnold’s five lowest passing yard outputs have also come against this 49ers defense, with 150 passing yards in Week 1 and 198 in Week 18. And again, Seattle has gone 4-1 in games where Darnold has thrown for fewer than 200 yards.
All of that is a long-winded way of saying a lot of Saturday night will come down to Seattle’s run game. The 49ers – with a defense at full health – symied the run game back in Week 1, holding Seattle to just 84 rushing yards. Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet combined for 67 rushing yards on 22 carries, good for a pedestrian 3.05 yards per attempt.
But a flip was switched in Week 18 against the 49ers’ less-than-healthy defense for the Seattle rushing duo. Walker and Charbonnet torched the San Francisco defense for 171 yards on 33 attempts, a vast improvement, averaging 5.18 yards per rush in the Seattle win.
The 49ers seem to have Darnold figured out, which will only make the Seattle backfield that much more valuable on Saturday. If the 49ers can force Darnold into a turnover or two and contain Charbonnet and Walker, that could be the combination that advances San Francisco to the NFC Championship Game.
99.5
Christian McCaffrey averaged 99.5 yards in the two games against Seattle.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the 49ers’ offense comes and goes with Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey had one of his better games of the season in terms of scrimmage yards back in Week...
