The Seattle Seahawks are getting a bigger national spotlight in Week 5 after the NFL altered its FOX schedule, pushing Packers-Bears out of the featured 1:25 p.m. PT window and into the 10 a.m. PT slot.
That shuffle turns Seahawks-49ers into the lead late doubleheader game on FOX, giving Seattle and San Francisco a much wider national audience than they would have had in the second slot behind Green Bay and Chicago.
The change also comes with a different broadcast booth for the matchup, as Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady will handle the call.
The timing of the switch makes sense on the league’s end. Caleb Williams is expected to miss multiple weeks, and the Packers have already dropped two of their first three games.
On the field, the game has plenty of juice on its own. San Francisco enters at 3-0 and sits atop the NFC West, while Seattle is 2-1 and right behind it in the division race.
The betting market reflects that profile, too. FanDuel Sportsbook lists the 49ers and Seahawks both inside the top 10 for Super Bowl odds, with San Francisco tied for third at +950 alongside the Baltimore Ravens and Seattle fifth at +1000.
There’s also the backdrop from February, when Seattle won the Super Bowl in the 49ers’ own stadium. The two teams won’t meet in Seattle until their first game of the 2026 season, which only adds to the intrigue around this one.
Seattle will be looking to make the most of the expanded audience and keep rolling after last year’s playoff demolition of San Francisco, a 41-6 win. New season, new stakes, same bad blood - and now a much bigger national stage.
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