Seattle's turnovers made 21 points, and the 49ers still needed the last kick

The 49ers won 32-29 at Seattle on Sunday and are 5-0. Eddy Pineiro kicked a 44-yard field goal with 1:56 left, and Seattle's last drive ended at the San Francisco 41 when Cooper Kupp was ruled a yard short on fourth and 10. Replay upheld the spot. The lead changed hands four times.

1. The defense scored or set up 21 points#

Seattle turned the ball over four times. Three of them became touchdowns.

• Renardo Green intercepted Sam Darnold at the Seattle 18 on the game's second series. Purdy hit Mike Evans for a 2-yard touchdown on the fourth play of the drive.
• Fred Warner forced a fumble from Emanuel Wilson at the Seattle 11 and Malik Mustapha recovered it. Christian McCaffrey ran 11 yards for a touchdown on the next snap.
• With 18 seconds left in the half and Seattle backed up at its own 4, Gracen Halton knocked the ball out of George Holani's hands and fell on it in the end zone. That made it 21-13 at the half.

Green's second interception, early in the third quarter, produced nothing: Pineiro missed wide left from 52. The 49ers gave three turnovers back, a muffed punt by Jacob Cowing, a Purdy interception and a Deebo Samuel fumble, and Seattle scored 17 points off those.

2. Jaden Dugger took Greenlaw's job for the afternoon#

Dre Greenlaw was ejected with 6:30 left in the second quarter. He hit Darnold after a scramble out of bounds, Seattle players came at him on their own sideline, and he head-butted linebacker Ernest Jones IV, who was not wearing a helmet. The game book carries it as a 15-yard disqualification penalty.

Kyle Shanahan did not argue the call. "They told me that he headbutted a guy without a helmet," he said, per the transcript published by 49ers Webzone. "So, if that's exactly what happened, then yeah, we've got to be a lot smarter than that." Whether the league adds anything is the open question of the week.

Greenlaw played 26 of the 63 defensive snaps. Dugger, a fifth-round rookie out of Louisiana, played 47, and finished with nine tackles and a 7-yard sack on Darnold. Luke Gifford played 19. If Greenlaw misses time, the man taking his snaps already has a full half against a division opponent on tape.

3. Five sacks from five different men, and two of them are rookies#

San Francisco sacked Darnold five times for 33 yards and hit him eight times. The sacks went to Dugger, Halton, Sebastian Valdez, Osa Odighizuwa and Keion White, one each. Halton played 34 snaps and added a second tackle for loss to go with the sack and the touchdown.

This was the third straight game without Nick Bosa. The rush that showed up was spread across the rotation rather than carried by one end. Mykel Williams, in his first game since November, played 23 snaps and made two tackles. That is a share consistent with Shanahan's stated plan to rotate him in his first week back.

4. Renardo Green played all 63 snaps and took the ball away twice#

Besides the two interceptions he broke up three passes, including a first-down throw to Jaxon Smith-Njigba on Seattle's final drive. Smith-Njigba still caught five passes for 102 yards and Seattle's only receiving touchdown, a 16-yarder on third and 3.

Upton Stout, questionable all week, played 30 snaps.

5. Evans carried the drive that took the lead back#

Seattle led 26-21 late in the third quarter. The 49ers went 74 yards in 12 plays across the quarter break, and Evans caught four passes on the drive for 75 yards: 15 on first and 20, nine on second and 5, 23 on third and 10, and 28 on second and 21 after an intentional-grounding penalty. Brandin Cooks caught the 7-yard touchdown. The two-point try failed, then came back on a pass-interference flag against Josh Jobe, and Purdy hit Evans on the second attempt.

Evans finished with seven catches for 113 yards on 10 targets and played 38 of the 60 offensive snaps. He played through the rib injury he took in Week 3. "Actually, the ribs were way better this week," he said after the game.

6. Purdy was sacked for the first time this season#

Purdy took no sacks in the first four games. Seattle sacked him three times, twice by Byron Murphy II, and the offensive line drew holds from Trent Williams and Dominick Puni and a false start from Connor Colby. All five starters played all 60 snaps. Purdy finished 19 of 29 for 189 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

The run game closed it. On the winning drive McCaffrey ran for 8 and 13 yards and Kaelon Black for 11, and the 49ers took 4:59 off the clock before Pineiro's kick.

7. The injuries#

• Deebo Samuel, hamstring. He was hurt on his third-quarter fumble and ruled out of the game. Asked whether he had a sense of how serious it was, Shanahan said: "No, don't know yet."
• Jacob Cowing, ankle. He was hurt on a kickoff return in the third quarter and returned.
• Khalid Kareem, stinger. He returned.
• George Kittle played through flu symptoms, Shanahan said, and was on the field for 55 of 60 snaps.
• Christian Kirk: Shanahan said he does not expect Kirk's practice window to open this week.

Samuel played 26 snaps before he left. Cowing, Cooks and second-year receiver Jordan Watkins, who started, divided the rest of the receiver snaps behind Evans.

Washington comes to Levi's Stadium next Monday night.

Sources: NFL official game book, 49ers at Seahawks, Oct. 11, 2026 (lineups, play-by-play, defensive statistics, playtime percentage); ESPN box score; Kyle Shanahan and Mike Evans postgame remarks as published by David Bonilla, 49ers Webzone, Oct. 11; 49ers.com roster.