Game recap

49ers @ Seahawks

2026 Wk 5 · SEA 29, SF 32

Jason Myers hit five long field goals, but four takeaways and a late Pineiro kick won it for the 49ers.

FanIQ Research · October 12, 2026 · 6 facts, every one from the play-by-play

Jason Myers made five field goals of 40 yards or longer. Every other kicker to do that since 1999 won the game.

Rare

Every game since 1999 with five or more made field goals of 40+ yards

Season	Week	Team	Kicker	FGs made	40+ made	Team pts	Opp pts	Result
2015	11	GB	Mason Crosby	5	5	30	13	W
2016	15	PIT	Chris Boswell	6	5	24	20	W
2024	1	PIT	Chris Boswell	6	5	18	10	W
2025	18	HOU	Ka'imi Fairbairn	6	5	38	30	W
2026	5	SEA	Jason Myers	5	5	29	32	L

Myers hit from 49, 50, 43, 48 and 40 yards, which is 15 of Seattle's 29 points. Five games in the play by play record since 1999 meet this bar, and his is the only one that ended in a loss.

Why it matters. Five kicks from 40 yards or longer means five Seattle drives stalled between the San Francisco 22 and 32 yard lines. Myers converted every one, so the kicking did its job; the gap was in the red zone, where those drives turned into 3 points instead of 7. Four extra points on any one of those trips would have flipped the result.

Seattle scored 29 points while averaging minus 0.425 EPA per play. Only six other offenses since 1999 reached 28 points that inefficiently.

Anomaly

Every team since 1999 with 28+ points and worse than minus 0.40 EPA per play

Season	Week	Team	Opp	Plays	EPA/play	Pts	Opp pts
2001	9	JAX	CIN	60	-0.855	30	13
2002	4	JAX	NYJ	57	-0.718	28	3
2020	8	MIA	LA	47	-0.493	28	17
2002	5	JAX	PHI	52	-0.490	28	25
2003	10	LA	BAL	50	-0.448	33	22
2026	5	SEA	SF	60	-0.425	29	32
2017	6	DET	NO	76	-0.403	38	52

Seattle ran 60 pass and run plays with a 30.0 percent success rate, its lowest of the season. Its two offensive touchdowns came on drives that started at the San Francisco 24 and 23 after takeaways, and the other 15 points came from field goals.

Why it matters. EPA per play strips out field position, and Seattle's number says the offense itself rarely moved the ball. The 29 points were built on short fields from San Francisco giveaways plus five long field goals. San Francisco was also below zero at minus 0.118, but well clear of Seattle, and the team with the better per play number won.

38 of the 61 points came off turnovers. Seattle's other drives produced four field goals and no touchdowns.

Split

Every turnover and what the other team did with it

Qtr	Clock	Lost by	Play	Ball at	Result	Pts
1	12:40	SEA	Darnold intercepted by Renardo Green	SEA 18	SF TD	7
1	9:34	SF	Jacob Cowing muffed punt	SF 24	SEA TD	7
2	8:31	SEA	Emanuel Wilson fumble	SEA 11	SF TD	7
2	0:18	SEA	George Holani fumble	End zone	SF defensive TD	7
3	14:18	SEA	Darnold intercepted by Renardo Green	SEA 39	Missed FG	0
3	7:24	SF	Purdy intercepted by Nehemiah Pritchett	SF 23	SEA TD	7
3	5:06	SF	Deebo Samuel Sr. fumble	SF 36	SEA FG	3

Points off takeaways versus all other points

Team	Takeaways	Pts off takeaways	Other pts	Total
SF	4	21	11	32
SEA	3	17	12	29

San Francisco's other 11 points were a Brandin Cooks touchdown with a two point conversion and Eddy Pineiro's 44 yard field goal. Seattle's other 12 were all Myers kicks, from 49, 50, 43 and 40 yards. Gracen Halton's touchdown came when Holani fumbled at his own goal line with 18 seconds left in the first half.

Why it matters. Neither offense was efficient on its own, so the game was decided by what each side did with gifted field position. San Francisco turned three of its four takeaways into touchdowns, one without its offense on the field. Seattle's three takeaways produced 17, and on drives it had to build itself it never reached the end zone.

The lead changed hands four times, and San Francisco's win probability fell to 24.5 percent in the third quarter.

Trend

Every scoring play, running score

Qtr	Clock	Score	SF	SEA	Leader
1	11:15	Purdy to Mike Evans TD	7	0	SF
1	5:46	Emanuel Wilson TD run	7	7	Tied
2	13:31	Myers 49 yd FG	7	10	SEA
2	8:22	Christian McCaffrey TD run	14	10	SF
2	2:00	Myers 50 yd FG	14	13	SF
2	0:18	Gracen Halton fumble recovery TD	21	13	SF
3	9:00	Myers 43 yd FG	21	16	SF
3	5:59	Darnold to Jaxon Smith-Njigba TD	21	23	SEA
3	3:06	Myers 48 yd FG	21	26	SEA
4	11:10	Purdy to Brandin Cooks TD, two point try good	29	26	SF
4	6:59	Myers 40 yd FG	29	29	Tied
4	2:00	Pineiro 44 yd FG	32	29	SF

The low point came just after Deebo Samuel Sr. fumbled at the San Francisco 36, with Seattle ahead 23 to 21. After another Myers field goal, the 49ers answered with a touchdown drive that ended in the Cooks score and a Purdy to Evans conversion. Seattle's last drive reached the San Francisco 41, where Cooper Kupp caught a 9 yard pass on 4th and 10 and was ruled short, a ruling upheld on review.

Why it matters. San Francisco trailed by five entering the fourth quarter and needed a touchdown, not a field goal, which is why the two point conversion mattered: it turned the tying Myers kick into a tie rather than a Seattle lead. The game ended one yard short of a fresh set of downs for Seattle near the edge of field goal range.

San Francisco allowed no sacks in its first four games. Seattle sacked Brock Purdy three times.

Comparison

San Francisco offense by week, 2026

Week	Opp	Pass plays	Sacks	EPA/play	Success%
1	LA	34	0	0.179	56.3%
2	MIA	22	0	0.460	57.4%
3	ARI	27	0	0.490	57.1%
4	DEN	29	0	0.120	48.4%
5	SEA	33	3	-0.118	45.5%

Seattle offense by week, 2026

Week	Opp	Pass plays	Sacks	EPA/play	Success%
1	NE	26	2	0.066	40.4%
2	ARI	27	1	0.134	46.3%
3	WAS	46	0	-0.046	50.0%
4	LAC	25	3	-0.088	39.3%
5	SF	34	5	-0.425	30.0%

This was San Francisco's first game of the season below zero EPA per play, after four games between plus 0.120 and plus 0.490. Seattle's rush got there too, but San Francisco's got there more: Sam Darnold was sacked 5 times, the most Seattle allowed in any game this season.

Why it matters. Purdy's clean pockets were a big part of how San Francisco opened 4 and 0 with three games above plus 0.170 EPA per play, and Seattle's front took that away in the first half alone. The 49ers still won because the gap on the other side was larger: Seattle fell to minus 0.425 with five sacks of Darnold.

San Francisco has won five straight regular season games in Seattle, the longest such run by any visitor since 1999.

Milestone

Longest regular season win streak at Seattle by a visiting team, since 1999

Team	Streak	Seasons
SF	5	2022 to 2026
WAS	4	2002 to 2017
PHI	3	2001 to 2008
ARI	3	2015 to 2017

San Francisco at Seattle under Kyle Shanahan

Season	Week	Type	Result
2017	2	REG	SEA 12, SF 9
2018	13	REG	SEA 43, SF 16
2019	17	REG	SF 26, SEA 21
2020	8	REG	SEA 37, SF 27
2021	13	REG	SEA 30, SF 23
2022	15	REG	SF 21, SEA 13
2023	12	REG	SF 31, SEA 13
2024	6	REG	SF 36, SEA 24
2025	1	REG	SF 17, SEA 13
2025	Divisional	POST	SEA 41, SF 6
2026	5	REG	SF 32, SEA 29

The streak counts regular season games only. The one break in it is the 2025 Divisional round, when Seattle won 41 to 6 in the same building. San Francisco is now 5 and 0 for the third time under Shanahan, after 2019 and 2023.

Why it matters. No visiting team since 1999 had strung together more than four straight regular season wins in Seattle, so this run stands alone in the table. The playoff loss sitting inside the streak is the caveat: San Francisco's recent edge in Seattle did not hold in the one playoff meeting there. This win came against the team that ended its last season.

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