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Doug Greenberg, ESPN
The San Francisco 49ers are poised to be underdogs for the first time since 2022, breaking a chain of 36 consecutive regular-season games in which they’ve been favored, the third-longest such streak of the Super Bowl era, behind only the 1999-2002 St. Louis Rams (50) and the 2016-20 New England Patriots (64).
As of Friday afternoon, the Green Bay Packers are three-point favorites over the visiting Niners, per ESPN BET odds.
The last time the 49ers were underdogs was in a Week 7 matchup with the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct. 23, 2022. San Francisco was just a one-point underdog in that one, but would go on to lose 44-23.
This season’s iteration of the Niners has stumbled to 5-5 straight up and 4-6 against the spread records; they failed to cover -6.5 in a Week 10 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. San Francisco (+325) trails the Arizona Cardinals (-115) on the oddsboard to win the NFC North, the first time the 49ers have not been favored to win the division at any point over the last two seasons, per ESPN Research.
Green Bay moved from a consensus -1.5 to -3 in the betting markets following reports that QB Brock Purdy (shoulder), OT Trent Williams (ankle) and DE Nick Bosa (hip) are all in danger of missing Sunday’s contest. John Murray, executive director of the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas, said on the “Chicken Dinner” podcast that the book took sharp money on Packers -2.5 after the injury news.
If Purdy were to sit out, it would ironically preserve a different streak: The 24-year-old has been favored in every one of his 31 career regular season starts, the longest such streak by any quarterback to begin a career in the Super Bowl Era.
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