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Close to 68,000 football fans packed Levi's Stadium Sunday night for the 49ers home opener against the Green Bay Packers. It was January 2020 when the stadium hosted its last home game, which, coincidentally was also against the Packers.

Staying on the road between East Coast games has been a successful formula for the San Francisco 49ers under coach Kyle Shanahan. The problem has been how they played once they got back home.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw one touchdown pass and ran in for a score, leading the San Francisco 49ers to a 17-11 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

The San Francisco 49ers placed linebacker Dre Greenlaw on injured reserve Saturday with a groin injury that will likely sideline him for at least a month.

San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert will undergo season-ending surgery on his knee after getting injured in the season opener.

Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Parys Haralson has died, the team confirmed Monday evening. He was 37.

San Francisco led 38-10 early in the fourth quarter and allowed Detroit to score 23 points in three-plus minutes to pull within eight points. The 49ers barely held on for a 41-33 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

An offseason full of quarterback intrigue and speculation in San Francisco has left the 49ers in the same spot at the beginning of the season as they have been the past three years: Jimmy Garoppolo is the starting quarterback.