The San Francisco 49ers had a cakewalk of a schedule in 2025.

What does the schedule look like going into this season?

And are we nearing the end of the Christian McCaffrey era?

On today's Locked-on 49ers.

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Welcome to Lockdown 49ers, Brian Peacock and Eric Crocker.

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We are talking 49ers strength of schedule, what this looks like for 2026, who the opponents are.

And at some point this off season, we'll have a big schedule release show that happens

and is always big, big news around the NFL in the slow point of the off season.

And apparently Seattle Seahawks thought the Niners were going to take a running back even

earlier than pick 90 in the 2026 NFL draft.

Kroc, let's start with strengths of schedule,

and Warren Sharp always does great work

and puts out an extensive strength of schedule article every single year

and then dives back into interesting stuff

once the actual schedules are released.

The 49ers had one of the easiest schedules in the league last year.

The Niners, once again, this year have an easier schedule, top third, but not at the

very top like they were last year.

Eighth easiest schedule in the NFL this year for the San Francisco 49ers, who, as we all know, aren't playing a first

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