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Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys are riding a 10-game home winning streak as they get set to play five of their next seven games at AT&T Stadium. Matthew Stafford is visiting his hometown team for the first time since joining the Los Angeles Rams — and becoming a Super Bowl champion. Dallas (4-2) is still trying to bury the bad memory of a blowout loss at San Francisco.

San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel will miss at least the next two games with a hairline fracture in his shoulder. Coach Kyle Shanahan said Saturday that a CT scan determined the extent of the injury suffered on the first play last week in Cleveland. Samuel will miss the game for the 49ers (5-1) on Monday night and the following week at home against Cincinnati.

San Francisco's high-powered offense that seemed unstoppable to begin the season looked awfully pedestrian after losing two key playmakers in a game against Cleveland's stellar defense. With Deebo Samuel missing most of the game with a shoulder injury and Christian McCaffrey sidelined for most of the second half with an injured oblique and rib, the 49ers struggled to move the ball for most of the second half in a 19-17 loss to the Browns on Sunday. “Any time you lose real good...

NFL picks against the spread for Week Six.

ERS PLAYER TO WATCH: QB Brock Purdy threw a career-high four TD passes last week to improve to 10-0 as a starter in the regular season. Purdy's 121.1 rating in those games is the best ever through 10 starts. He has completed 70.4% of his passes — second best to Chad Pennington's 70.8% — through 10 starts.

The San Francisco 49ers' fast start to the season went into overdrive against the Dallas Cowboys. After four relatively convincing wins to open the year, San Francisco thoroughly dismantled Dallas 42-10 on the national stage Sunday night and became the leading Super Bowl favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. San Francisco (5-0) matched the 2019 team for the best start through five games for the franchise in the past three decades.

Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers quickly turned the biggest challenge of their young season into a laugher. Purdy threw three of his four touchdown passes to George Kittle, San Francisco's defense hounded Dak Prescott all night and the 49ers extended their dominance over the Dallas Cowboys with a 42-10 victory Sunday. “It felt good, especially going against the No. 1 defense in the league,” star left tackle Trent Williams said.

The frustration from back-to-back playoff losses to San Francisco that both ended on odd plays turned to humiliation for the Dallas Cowboys. Hoping to prove themselves against a fellow NFC contender in a showdown against the 49ers, the Cowboys were run off the field almost from the start. It added up to a 42-10 loss to the 49ers on Sunday night that was the most lopsided ever for Dallas in this storied rivalry and that raised more questions about whether the Cowboys are a viable threat to get ...

Since Brock Purdy took over at quarterback for San Francisco late last season, no team in the NFL has scored more points, won more games or passed more efficiently. While plenty of credit should go to coach Kyle Shanahan's innovative play-calling and a bevy of playmakers led by Christian McCaffrey, Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel and George Kittle, the Niners reject the notion that the quarterback is just along for the ride as a creation of the system. “That’s pretty ridiculous,...

Brock Purdy learned about the difficulties of playing on a short turnaround for a Thursday night game in just his second career start last season. “The preparation is just, it’s more intense for both teams,” Purdy said Tuesday. The process for Purdy headed into Thursday night's home opener against the New York Giants is a bit easier than what he went through last season at Seattle when he didn't know if he'd even be able to play because of a broken rib until...