{"id":476447,"date":"2026-09-26T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T13:04:07","slug":"49ers-cardinals-week-3-experts-almost-unanimously-take-san-francisco-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476447\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers-Cardinals Week 3: Experts almost unanimously take San Francisco | San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers host the Arizona Cardinals at Levi&#8217;s Stadium for a divisional showdown in Week 3. The 49ers are coming off another monster win, while the Cardinals are looking to rebound from a blowout loss to the Seattle Seahawks a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the current nature of both teams, it wasn&#8217;t a shock to see most experts take the 49ers in this one. We looked at seven outlets in Week 3 to see how picks are shaking out, and the 49ers were picked nearly unanimously. Only one reporter picked the Cardinals of the 52 total picks.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a roundup of those picks.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Bell: 49ersNick Brinkerhoff: 49ersChris Bumbaca: 49ersNate Davis: 49ersAdam Kaufman: 49ersMike Middlehurst-Schwartz: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>ESPN<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bowen: 49ersMike Clay: 49ersJeremy Fowler: 49ersDan Graziano: 49ersKalyn Kahler: 49ersPamela Maldonado: 49ersEric Moody: 49ersJason Reid: 49ersBen Solak: 49ersLindsey Thiry: 49ersSeth Wickersham: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports<\/p>\n<p>Pete Prisco: 49ersJared Dubin: 49ersRyan Wilson: 49ersJohn Breech: 49ersTyler Sullivan: 49ersDave Richard: 49ersJamey Eisenberg: 49ers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/NFL.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Bergman: 49ersBrooke Cersosimo: 49ersGennaro Filice: 49ersBobby Kownack: 49ersDan Parr: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Bleacher Report<\/p>\n<p>Gary Davenport: CardinalsBrad Gagnon: 49ersIan Hanford: 49ersKris Knox: 49ersMoe Moton: 49ersWes O&#8217;Donnell: 49ersBrent Sobleski: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n<p>Albert Breer: 49ersEva Geitheim: 49ersMitch Goldich: 49ersMike Kadlick: 49ersGilberto Manzano: 49ersConor Orr: 49ersJohn Pluym: 49ersMatt Verderame: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic<\/p>\n<p>Zach Berman: 49ersChad Graff: 49ersJon Greenberg: 49ersLarry Holder: 49ersJosh Kendall: 49ersNick Kosmider: 49ersSteven Louis Goldstein: 49ersAustin Mock: 49ers<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Niners Wire: 49ers-Cardinals Week 3: Experts almost unanimously take San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Oliver G., Niners Wire \/ Niners Wire<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers host the Arizona Cardinals at Levi&#8217;s Stadium for a divisional showdown in Week 3.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1818,752,128946,101,296,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-476447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-49ers","tag-nfl","tag-niners","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}