The 49ers advanced to the NFC Championship Game with a fourth-quarter comeback against the top-seeded Green Bay Packers that produced a 13-10 win.
GREEN BAY, Wisc. – On and on this dramatic 49ers’ season goes, from one elimination game to the next, with a spot now reserved for them in the NFC Championship Game.
On third-and-7 from the Packers’ 38-yard line, after a 49ers’ timeout, Garoppolo took a shotgn snap with 1:03 left and handed the ball off to Samuel on a draw. Samuel churned to the 29-yard line, then hopped off the field, unable to put weight on his right foot. That left Aaron Rodgers plenty of time for late-game magic, against a team he needed only 37 seconds to spare for a game-winning drive in the 49ers’ home opener in Week 3. Instead, that Packers drive was harmless, expiring once Rogers’ 45-yard heave toward Davante Adams fell incomplete with 3:33 remaining.
But a storybook finish made that a footnote, just as it did the four third-down sacks he endured, just as it did a failed fourth-and-1 run by Mitchell earlier in the fourth quarter.
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