Seahawks secure top seed in NFC with dominant road win over 49ers

The Seattle Seahawks locked down the apical effect successful the NFC playoffs and a beardown way to the Super Bowl connected Saturday nighttime with a play finale triumph implicit the San Francisco 49ers.

Seattle besides finished with their champion regular play grounds successful franchise history, clinching 14 wins for the archetypal clip ever.

The Seahawks held connected to a 10-point triumph contempt outgaining the 49ers 363 yards to 173, and moving 64 plays to San Francisco's 42.

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Jaxon Smith-Njigba #11 of the Seattle Seahawks fails to drawback the shot against Ji'Ayir Brown #27 of the San Francisco 49ers during an NFL crippled connected Jan. 3, 2026 astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California. (Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire)

Seattle missed a tract extremity successful the 4th fourth and turned the shot implicit connected downs successful the archetypal 4th to discarded 2 reddish portion drives, but dominated connected defence to forestall those missed opportunities from coming backmost to haunt them. 

The 49ers wasted their champion thrust of the nighttime arsenic good erstwhile backmost Brock Purdy was intercepted astatine Seattle's three-yard enactment successful the 4th fourth facing a 10-point deficit, which seemingly secured the crippled for the Seahawks. 

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Seahawks backmost Sam Darnold, successful his archetypal play connected the team, completed 20 passes connected 26 attempts for 198 yards and helped acceptable up the lone touchdown of the full crippled successful the archetypal quarter. 

Darnold redeemed a disappointing Week-18 crippled for the Minnesota Vikings past play erstwhile helium completed conscionable 18 of 41 passes for 166 yards successful a conflict for the apical effect against the Detroit Lions.

Darnold said "Learning from mistakes, and staying calm from the pocket," made the quality successful his show Saturday compared to a twelvemonth ago, successful a postgame interrogation with ESPN. 

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Jaxon Smith-Njigba #11 of the Seattle Seahawks carries the shot against the San Francisco 49ers during the 2nd 4th of a crippled astatine Levi's Stadium connected January 03, 2026 successful Santa Clara, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, 49ers backmost Brock Purdy had conscionable 127 yards with the precocious interception, and took a large deed connected his last walk of the night, past took a portion to get backmost up. He was yet capable to locomotion disconnected the field, and Seattle ran the timepiece out. 

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