San Francisco 49ers: Three most important games of the 2018 season

The San Francisco 49ers 2018 schedule was officially released yesterday. Which of these games project to be the most difficult, and most important for the team?

With yesterday’s release of the 2018 NFL schedules, we now know who the San Francisco 49ers will be facing and when. The team’s schedule is not tremendously difficult on paper, but that doesn’t mean there will not be challenging match ups.

It is difficult to predict which games will be more challenging than others at this point of the year, mainly because the NFL Draft can change so much for some teams, but we still have a rough idea.

No matter how the draft shakes out, the first half of the 49ers season will be far more difficult than the latter half. The team will be facing playoff contenders in six of the first eight games, but then will enjoy a streak of non-contending teams immediately after.

If you want to read more about the details of next season for the 49ers, we broke down the entire schedule yesterday here on Golden Gate Sports.

We have established that next season will likely be full of ups and downs based on the structure of the schedule, but which single games will prove to be the most difficult of the bunch?

You can narrow the schedule down to three key games that will not only prove themselves to be the most difficult, but also the most important.

Which of the 16 match ups are these so called important games? Let’s find out.