{"id":395238,"date":"2022-12-16T01:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395238"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:28:33","slug":"49ers-seal-place-in-play-offs-after-21-13-win-over-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/49ers-seal-place-in-play-offs-after-21-13-win-over-seahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers seal place in play-offs after 21-13 win over Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/san-francisco-49ers\/\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> became the second NFL team to seal a place in this season&#8217;s play-offs after breezing past at divisional rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/seattle-seahawks\/\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> 21-13 on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0.0\">Rookie quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/brock-purdy\/\">Brock Purdy<\/a>, on just his second NFL start, threw two touchdown passes to tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/george-kittle\/\">George Kittle<\/a> to give the 49ers a seventh straight win and move to a 10-4 record.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1.$body-0.0\">That secured the NFC West title with three regular season games left.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.1.$body-0\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">The Seahawks (7-7) can still make the post-season via a wild-card spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">The 22-year-old Purdy was his year&#8217;s &#8216;Mr Irrelevant&#8217;, the nickname given to the player selected last in the NFL draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YAC King \ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SFvsSEA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SFvsSEA<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLonPrime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NFLonPrime<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udcf1: NFL+ \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KTh0i4oaLh\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/KTh0i4oaLh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProBowlVote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ProBowlVote<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gkittle46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@gkittle46<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVMH4Rnj5J\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zVMH4Rnj5J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/49ers\/status\/1603585419727503360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">However, injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/trey-lance\/\">Trey Lance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/jimmy-garoppolo\/\">Jimmy Garoppolo<\/a> have handed the 262nd draft pick an unexpected opportunity to lead the 49ers into the play-offs and potentially to Super Bowl 57.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">Since the draft moved to seven rounds in 1994, no quarterback selected in the final round has started a play-off game as a rookie &#8211; and only six have played in a play-off game at any point in their career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">Purdy became the first Mr Irrelevant to throw a regular-season touchdown pass when he replaced the injured Garoppolo two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">Last week he became the first quarterback to beat record seven-time Super Bowl winner <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tom-brady\/\">Tom Brady<\/a> on his first career start, as the 49ers defeated the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> 35-7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13\"><span data-reactid=\".1tr3niv2ina.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13.0\">He completed 17 of 26 passes for 217 yards in Seattle on his first away start on Thursday, while Kittle made four catches for 93 yards.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers became the second NFL team to seal a place in this season&#8217;s play-offs after breezing past at divisional rivals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17147,16825,16751],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"San Francisco secured the NFC West title with three regular season games left","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395238"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395238"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}