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2025 NFL Sunday Night Football Week 17 Betting Lines

The playoff picture in the NFC is getting settled with six spots already taken. However, where the teams will be seeded remains a mystery. The final Sunday Night Football game of the season will have an impact on the seedings with the NFC North leading Chicago Bears visiting the San Francisco 49ers in Week 17. Winners of five in a row, the Niners can win out and claim the No. 1 seed in the NFC. They host Seattle in the regular season finale.

The Bears clinched their first playoff berth in five years and moved a step closer to winning the NFC North with a remarkable comeback win over the Packers on Saturday. They avenged a Week 14 loss to Green Bay and are 11-2 since starting the season with two straight losses. Six of Chicago’s wins have come when trailing in the final two minutes The game takes place on Dec. 28 at 8:20 p.m. ET from Levi’s Stadium and can be seen on NBC.

Bears at 49ers SNF Week 17 Lines

Spread: 49ers -3

Total: 51

Money Line: Bears +138, 49ers -163

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You can never count the Bears out of any game. They did it again last week rallying from a late 10-point deficit to beat Green Bay in overtime. More remarkable was that they recovered an onside kick, something that rarely happens in today’s game. Winning games late has become commonplace for the Bears, who have the lowest point differential of any team that has secured a playoff berth.

Hiring Ben Johnson and directing assets to the offensive side of the football has paid off. The Bears were one of the lowest scoring teams in recent year but that’s changed. They are currently 10th in the NFL averaging 25.8 points. He hasn’t put up sparkling numbers, a sign that the offense has more room to grow, but Caleb Williams is efficient. He’s completing less than 58 percent of his passes, but he does have 3,400 yards and 23 TDs. The improvement starts up front with a dramatic cut in the number of sacks. Last season Williams was taken down a league-high 68 times. He wasn’t sacked last week and has been sacked just 23 times this season.

The Bears have holes on defense, but they’ve been able to make up for them with a ball-hawking unit that leads the NFL with 31 takeaways and a plus-21 turnover margin. They have forced at least one turnover in eight straight games and have multiple takeaways nine times. The Bears lead the NFL with 21 interceptions led by Kevin Byard with six.

With a relaxed schedule over the past six weeks the Niners have made things interesting in the NFC playoff race. They improved to 11-4 with Monday nights 48-27 win over the reeling Colts. They are tied with the Rams and Bears with the second best record in the conference and by winning out they won’t have to play another road game unless they reach the Super Bowl. That’s incentive enough to win games.

And winning has been easy with five straight victories and payouts putting San Francisco in prime position. Some will question the level of competition over the last five games with Arizona, Carolina, Cleveland, Tennessee and Indy all falling victim. The Niners won them all handily by double digits with an average scoring margin of 16.4 points.

The winning streak coincided with the return of Brock Purdy, who had his best game of the season on Monday night. Purdy was 25 of 34 for 295 yards with a career-best five TD passes. Over the last five games Purdy has 13 TD passes and the Niners are averaging 34.4 points.

The teams have alternated wins and losses over the last eight meetings with the Bears winning two of three games played in the Bay Area during that span. Purdy had a big game when the teams met last December throwing for 325 yards and two TDs in a 38-13 Niners win.

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