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REPORT: The 49ers Will Play the Bears Week 14

The fact that the Bears are one of the weakest teams the 49ers will face next season shows how much more difficult their schedule is than last season.
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Sep 11, 2022; Chicago, Illinois, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs the
Sep 11, 2022; Chicago, Illinois, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs the | Mike Dinovo-USA TODAY Sports

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The 49ers' schedule is beginning to take shape.

In Week 14, the 49ers will play the Chicago Bears at Levi's Stadium. That will be Dec. 8, and it will come at the end of a four-game stretch in which the 49ers play the Seahawks, the Packers and the Bills.

On paper, the Bears are the worst of the four teams in that stretch of opponents. But it's easy to forget they won 7 games last season with Justin Fields and Tyson Bagent as their quarterbacks. Now those two are backups (Fields with the Steelers, Bagents with the Bears still), and Chicago's starting quarterback is rookie Caleb Williams, the No. 1 pick in the draft.

Ideally, the 49ers would want to face Williams as early in the season as possible, because he's young and could struggle the first few games of the season before he improves dramatically later on. By Week 14, he might be hitting his stride.

The fact that the Bears are one of the weakest teams the 49ers will face next season shows how much more difficult their schedule is than last season. In 2023, the 49ers got to face quarterbacks such as Kenny Pickett, Joshua Dobbs, Daniel Jones, P.J. Walker and Sam Howell. This year, the weakest quarterbacks on their schedule are Caleb Williams who was the no. 1 pick, Drake Maye who was the no. 3 pick and J.J. McCarthy who was the no. 10 pick. They also have to face Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.

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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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