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San Francisco 49ers are 6-0 and looking to stay undefeated in Week 7. They’ll travel to Atlanta to take on the Falcons, who enter the game at 2-4.
NFL experts are backing the 49ers to extend the perfect start. San Francisco received 42 of 52 picks across seven major outlets, with the Falcons getting the other 10. Bleacher Report was the only outlet to lean toward Atlanta, with four of its seven analysts picking the Falcons.
Here is how the experts see Sunday’s game:
USA Today
- Jarrett Bell: Falcons
- Nick Brinkerhoff: 49ers
- Chris Bumbaca: 49ers
- Nate Davis: Falcons
- Adam Kaufman: 49ers
- Mike Middlehurst-Schwartz: 49ers
Bleacher Report
- Gary Davenport: 49ers
- Brad Gagnon: Falcons
- Ian Hanford: 49ers
- Kris Knox: 49ers
- Moe Moton: Falcons
- Wes O’Donnell: Falcons
- Brent Sobleski: Falcons
Sports Illustrated
- Albert Breer: 49ers
- Eva Geitheim: 49ers
- Mitch Goldich: 49ers
- Mike Kadlick: 49ers
- Gilberto Manzano: 49ers
- Conor Orr: 49ers
- John Pluym: 49ers
- Matt Verderame: 49ers
ESPN
- Matt Bowen: 49ers
- Mike Clay: 49ers
- Jeremy Fowler: 49ers
- Dan Graziano: 49ers
- Kalyn Kahler: 49ers
- Pamela Maldonado: 49ers
- Eric Moody: 49ers
- Jason Reid: 49ers
- Ben Solak: 49ers
- Lindsey Thiry: 49ers
- Seth Wickersham: 49ers
CBS Sports
- Pete Prisco: 49ers
- Jared Dubin: 49ers
- Ryan Wilson: 49ers
- John Breech: 49ers
- Tyler Sullivan: 49ers
- Dave Richard: Falcons
- Jamey Eisenberg: 49ers
The Athletic
- Zach Berman: 49ers
- Jon Greenberg: 49ers
- Chad Graff: Falcons
- Larry Holder: 49ers
- Josh Kendall: 49ers
- Steven Louis Goldstein: 49ers
- Austin Mock: 49ers
- Nick Kosmider: 49ers
NFL.com
- Jeremy Bergman: Falcons
- Brooke Cersosimo: 49ers
- Gennaro Filice: Falcons
- Bobby Kownack: 49ers
- Dan Parr: 49ers
This article originally appeared on Niners Wire: NFL Week 7 picks: Experts overwhelmingly favor 49ers over Falcons
