
the 49ers committed five turnovers in that 2019 home opener – and still beat the Steelers 24-20, on a 5-yard touchdown pass from Jimmy Garoppolo to Dante Pettis with 1:15 remaining. The 49ers not turning the ball over five times like the last time they played the Steelers. Clair, Dave Wilcox, Terrell Owens, and John Taylor. He’s already one of the franchise’s all-time best third-round picks, an elite club that includes Joe Montana, Bob St. Fred” reclaimed that status last season in leading the 49ers in tackles. OMG my heart started racing! Hyped to see my fave #54 Fred Warner. And he’ll be expected to score three per game this season after exhibiting last year what an ideal catalyst he is in Shanahan’s offense. McCaffrey scored three touchdowns in his only previous visit to Pittsburgh, a 2018 loss with the Carolina Panthers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke, AP)ĬMC. San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey in action during the NFC Championship NFL football game on Sunday, Jan. After three years with an NFC-team-we-will-not-name, Hargrave came to recharge the 49ers’ defensive line, at a steep price (four years, $84 million). bonus storyline to this opening matchup is that Javon Hargrave was a 2016 third-round draft pick by the Steelers. So, please, be sure to double-check those facts! They are 16-7 in home openers since moving into their stadium, now named Acrisure Stadium. They are 11-5 in home openers under coach Mike Tomlin. The Steelers lost their home opener four of the past five seasons. San Francisco 49er’s Colton McKivitz (68) walks on the field during a practice session at the 49er’s practice facility at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Watt’s “hold-in” with the 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers). If no deal is reached when camp opens, don’t expect him to hold out and endure steep fines, but rather show up and stay away from the field until he’s paid (see: T.J. So, two weeks until the pseudo-deadline for the 49ers to award Bosa an extension worth over $30 million annually, perhaps as the NFL’s highest-paid non-quarterback. More bleak history: The 49ers also dropped openers in 2017, ’18 and ’20 under coach Kyle Shanahan.īOOOOOOOSSSSSSAAAAAA!!! weeks until the 49ers’ veterans report for training camp (July 25), and that includes Nick Bosa, the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year. sober reminder that the 49ers lost that rainy opener 19-10 to a Bears team that next lost 14 of 16 games.

Hopefully they don’t drop this opener like they did last year in Chicago. 10 at the Pittsburgh Steelers:Ĭan’t wait to go to this game! I’m just excited to see 49ers football back in action.
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So, by the expanding reach of social media, here are who and what they’re hyped to see Sept. Nine weeks shy of the 49ers’ season opener, it’s a numerically appropriate time to awaken the Faithful.
