San Francisco 49ers vs Seattle Seahawks, Week 5 2026

49ers vs Seahawks kicks off at 4:25 PM ET on Sunday, October 11 at Lumen Field, and it is San Francisco's first look at a Seattle roster that lost less than anybody in the division and still has two holes it has not filled.

FOX has the broadcast. From the opening snap this page keeps itself current: live score, real time score, game leaders, box scores, play-by-play with the game flow chart and team statistics, every panel updating on its own without anyone hitting refresh.

49ers vs Seahawks is the first NFC West meeting of the year for both clubs, five weeks into a season that has already given each of them a month of tape.

49ers vs Seahawks Start Time, TV Channel and Live Stream

FOX has 49ers vs Seahawks in the late afternoon doubleheader window rather than the early one, which is the slot that reaches the most households. Both teams live on Pacific time, so kickoff is 1:25 PM locally and nobody is crossing a time zone.

Brock Purdy Had a Very Boring Summer

Boring is the word coaches want. In the joint practice against Tennessee, Purdy went 21-of-27 with two touchdowns to Demarcus Robinson and one to tight end Luke Farrell, and threw the ball away rather than into trouble the rest of the afternoon. No interceptions.

The internal sessions ran the same way. He hit De'Zhaun Stribling for a 25-yard score against Deommodore Lenoir, which is a live rep against one of the better corners on his own roster, and finished another practice 12-of-17. A quarterback in a settled system rarely produces headlines, and San Francisco has been perfectly happy about that.

The complications sat elsewhere. Nick Bosa spent much of camp off the practice field with soreness and tendinitis, Christian McCaffrey was managed through tightness, and right guard Dominick Puni went into concussion protocol. 49ers vs Seahawks is a road game in a loud building, which is not where a team wants to be improvising up front.

The Two Things Seattle Did Not Keep

Seattle's offseason was mostly about continuity, and that has been well documented. The exceptions are worth more attention than the retentions.

Riq Woolen left for Philadelphia in free agency, which takes a long, fast outside corner out of a room that also has Nick Emmanwori working through injuries. That is a real subtraction for a defense that otherwise returned intact, and the coaching staff has spent August reshuffling behind it.

The receiver group is the other one. Depth there thinned out over the summer with Horton unavailable, and the openings have gone to players trying to make the roster rather than players who already had it. Montorie Foster Jr., in his second year, scored in the preseason opener against Dallas and has been making the argument steadily since. 49ers vs Seahawks will show whether the answers Seattle found in August hold up against a real opponent.

49ers vs Seahawks: The Division Starts Here

Both clubs opened the year outside the division, which means neither has had to defend anything that counts twice yet.

San Francisco arrives with the quarterback playing well and questions about who is healthy enough to protect and rush. Seattle arrives with a defense missing a piece it did not replace and a receiver room built partly out of players who were fighting for jobs in August.

49ers vs Seahawks tends to be decided by field position and third down rather than by anything spectacular, and the crowd in this building has a documented habit of turning a false start into a drive-ender. Seattle also plays at Denver on the following Thursday, which means this is the last thing they do on a normal week of rest for a while.

Rosters are set. The cut to 53 passed on August 30. Follow the 49ers and Seahawks pages, and check the NFL standings five weeks into the season. The rest of the slate sits on the 2026 NFL schedule.

Four Events on the Same Grass in Seventeen Days

Lumen Field belongs to two clubs, and October is the month where that arrangement gets tested.

The Sounders host Kansas City there on October 2. The Seahawks host the Chargers on October 4. The Seahawks host San Francisco on October 11. The Sounders are back on October 18 against Montreal, with Houston to follow at the end of the month. That is four full events on one playing surface inside seventeen days, in a stretch where the soccer club is chasing a playoff place and the football club has two home games in eight days.

For anyone in Seattle planning a weekend around 49ers vs Seahawks, the soccer side of the calendar is the easy part to miss. The Sounders schedule lists which of those dates are at home and which are on the road.

49ers vs Seahawks FAQ

49ers vs Seahawks opens the NFC West with a quarterback playing his cleanest football and a home defense working around a corner it did not replace. Come back on game day for inactives and the live score.

Last updated: August 27, 2026