{"id":476513,"date":"2026-09-26T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476513\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:40:10","slug":"49ers-cardinals-week-3-experts-almost-unanimously-take-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476513\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers-Cardinals Week 3: Experts almost unanimously take San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>49ers-Cardinals Week 3: Experts almost unanimously take San Francisco<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 26, 2026, 5:00 a.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> host the <a data-autotag=\"c6331531-478d-4c7a-b93a-28f5b26af3f9\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> 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 <a data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_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 class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here is a roundup of those picks.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Bell: 49ersNick Brinkerhoff: 49ersChris Bumbaca: 49ersNate Davis: 49ersAdam Kaufman: 49ersMike Middlehurst-Schwartz: 49ersYour fantasy edge starts here <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (fantasy)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.usatoday.com\/\">Sync your league for custom roster advice, projections, and tools to win your matchups every week.<\/a>Matt Bowen: 49ersMike Clay: 49ersJeremy Fowler: 49ersDan Graziano: 49ersKalyn Kahler: 49ersPamela Maldonado: 49ersEric Moody: 49ersJason Reid: 49ersBen Solak: 49ersLindsey Thiry: 49ersSeth Wickersham: 49ersPete Prisco: 49ersJared Dubin: 49ersRyan Wilson: 49ersJohn Breech: 49ersTyler Sullivan: 49ersDave Richard: 49ersJamey Eisenberg: 49ersJeremy Bergman: 49ersBrooke Cersosimo: 49ersGennaro Filice: 49ersBobby Kownack: 49ersDan Parr: 49ersGary Davenport: CardinalsBrad Gagnon: 49ersIan Hanford: 49ersKris Knox: 49ersMoe Moton: 49ersWes O&#8217;Donnell: 49ersBrent Sobleski: 49ersAlbert Breer: 49ersEva Geitheim: 49ersMitch Goldich: 49ersMike Kadlick: 49ersGilberto Manzano: 49ersConor Orr: 49ersJohn Pluym: 49ersMatt Verderame: 49ersZach Berman: 49ersChad Graff: 49ersJon Greenberg: 49ersLarry Holder: 49ersJosh Kendall: 49ersNick Kosmider: 49ersSteven Louis Goldstein: 49ersAustin Mock: 49ers<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_ld_p\">If you purchase through our links, the USA Today Network may earn a commission. Prices were accurate at the time of publication but may change.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 ninerswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790433610_118_p.gif\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers-Cardinals Week 3: Experts almost unanimously take San Francisco Sept. 26, 2026, 5:00 a.m. PT The San Francisco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,101,103,102,104,106,105,132255,10224,10225,378,6323,507,65397,44266,379,366,374,508,367,6330,377,246],"class_list":["post-476513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sourceniners-wire","tag-sstssportsnflniners","tag-sstsnniners","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagarizona-cardinals","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagnate-davis","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","tag-tagseattle-seahawks","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476513","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=476513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}