Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice preview Thursday’s divisional matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Pretty important Thursday night football game.

We got the 49er at the Seahawks.

Uh, Seahawks are number one in the division.

The 49er are kind of, I'm not gonna say reeling at two and three, but certainly don't want to be sitting here at two and three coming into damn week six.

The overrun in this game is 49.

49er are 3.5 point road favorites.

So, uh, Nate, on this game, it's definitely a big name fantasy game that's for sure.

Uh, beyond the obvious players, anything else stand out here to you?

It's a struggling 49ers defense a bit, especially against the run versus a Seahawks offense that has some really good moments, but also has, you know, had a interesting game against the giants.

The 49ers defense, struggle with big bodies.

So it might be a Kenneth Walker game as far as rushing yards.

Foreigners are interesting is that they're, they're allowing a lot of successful runs but no explosive runs.

What's Kenneth Walker's whole game is the boom bust running back.

So that's interesting to me.

57.5 is the over under for scary to me because I don't know if you can bust, break one off.

So maybe better under there.

I think Kenneth Walker is a great back and he, he's uh obviously could be super productive and effective, but I don't know that he's like the ideal back for this like shotgun, uh spread run team.

They're spread team that they are from past perspective.

So I could see that being a little bit that oil and water effect is not gonna happen every game, but I could see it happening in this game.

I've been looking at maybe some Jackson Smith and Jake bus stuff.

That, that's another one too.

He's coming along.

I mean, they're, they, they're peppering him, he's gonna have kind of steady catches, kind of, I think no matter what it is.

Um, so that's one that maybe I'm looking at too is where they have to attack underneath.

So it might be like a receptions over for the only thing about that is, it's 4.5 for 4.5, minus minus 145 though.

So it's like that's why I kind of thought that it looked like if we're saying receptions, can he pop like one of these?

Maybe the over on 47.5 for Jackson Smith and Jabba just because they do still have good perimeter coverage.

Although I don't know if you saw DK Metcalf uh talking like, yeah, this is the one year like I'm not scared of going against that defense.

He basically said that I'm paraphrasing but like, he's like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not worried about it like, this year watching them on film, but I, I do think the JSN over on 47.5 just because I would love to do receptions, but it's just like, minus 145.

That's not juicy.

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