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Rumor: 49ers to Open Regular Season in Seattle Against Seahawks

This would be an intriguing matchup to open the season.
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Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Seahawks tight end Noah Fant (87) and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner (54) after the game at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images
Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Seahawks tight end Noah Fant (87) and San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner (54) after the game at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images | Steven Bisig-Imagn Images

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This would be an intriguing matchup to open the season.

The NFL will release each team's schedule tonight, and the 49ers are rumored to be kicking off in Week 1 in Seattle against the Seahawks according to Dave "Softy" Mahler of 93.3 KJR FM in Seattle.

This will be the first time the 49ers have played the Seahawks on the Road to start a season since 2010. That season, the Seahawks won 31-6.

The 49ers often open seasons on the road because Levi's Stadium gets extremely hot during September afternoons and there's no shade in Santa Clara. Their September home games usually are played at night, and it's unclear how many primetime games the 49ers will play after finishing last season 6-11.

So the 49ers get what they want -- a September road game. But it's also a divisional game against a team that went 10-7 last season. This will be a tough, important game.

The 49ers can't afford to drop a divisional game right off the bat. This game could be important at the end of the season when it comes to tie-breakers and playoff seeding.

Last season, the Seahawks won their first three games. This offseason, they replaced Geno Smith and D.K. Metcalf with Sam Darnold and Cooper Kupp -- two lateral moves at best. But they also replaced offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb with Klint Kubiak, who worked with Darnold on the 49ers in 2023.

Kubiak is a much better offensive coordinator than Grubb, who came from college and immediately returned to college after one season in Seattle.

Fortunately for the 49ers, they should be relatively healthy for this game. Still, it's always difficult to play in Seattle. This game could go either way.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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