Currently, as things stand after Week 13, the 9-4 San Francisco 49ers are holding onto the No. 7 and final spot in the NFC playoff picture, the last Wild Card team currently in the postseason projection.
It won't look that way once Week 14 is in the books, though.
True, the Niners are on their bye week. Even though they're not playing, they'll advance in the NFC seeding regardless, which is a boost, considering how jam-packed both the NFC West and the conference are as a whole, currently.
And it's all thanks to one game on the upcoming weekend's docket: an NFC North showdown between the top-seeded 9-3 Chicago Bears and the 8-3-1 Green Bay Packers, currently the No.