{"id":258,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/258","headline":"Week 5 NFL slate headlined by 49ers-Seahawks clash","dek":"San Francisco gets a chance to tighten its grip on the NFC West when Seattle comes to town.","body":"The 49ers host the Seahawks this week with a shot to establish full control of the NFC West, the marquee matchup on an otherwise unspectacular Week 5 schedule.\n\nThe NFL continues its trip abroad for a second straight weekend, with the Eagles facing the Jaguars in London. Other notable games on the slate include Buccaneers against Cowboys and Bears against Packers.\n\nMonday Night Football closes out the week with a quarterback matchup between Josh Allen and the Bills against Matthew Stafford and the Rams.\n\nPickers around the league are divided on much of the slate. One outlet noted this was a week where the majority of picks required extra deliberation given the number of unknowns across the league. Last week's picks saw one outlet go 10-6, pushing its season-long record to 36-27 heading into this week's 16-game preview.","published_at":"2026-10-08T20:29:03.514505+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL Week 5 picks & predictions: 49ers dethrone Super Bowl champs","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nfl-week-5-picks-predictions-161612040.html"},{"outlet":"SB Nation","publisher":"SB Nation","title":"NFL Expert Picks for Week 5","url":"https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/1131708/nfl-expert-picks-week-5"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Week 5 NFL odds, spreads, totals, betting lines, for all 16 games, including Buccaneers-Cowboys, Bears-Packers","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/week-5-nfl-betting-odds-lines-spreads-totals/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"NFL staff picks for Week 5: 49ers-Seahawks, Bears-Packers, Bills-Rams, more","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7666343/2026/10/08/nfl-picks-predictions-week-5-bills-rams-49ers-seahawks/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NFL Expert Picks for Week 5","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nfl-expert-picks-week-5-180000645.html"}],"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}