Seahawks vs. Bears Point Spread: TNF Week 17 Odds, Prediction

Payton Matthews | Updated Dec 23, 2024

The final Thursday night game of this NFL regular season features the NFC playoff-hopeful Seahawks visiting one of the league’s most disappointing clubs in the Bears.

Seattle
10-7
AT
December 26, 2024, 8:15 PM ET
Soldier Field
Chicago
5-12
Pointspread -1.5 -110
Moneyline -225
Over / Under o +42
Pointspread +1.5 -110
Moneyline +190
Over / Under u +42

Seattle opened as a 3-point favourite with a total of 42.5 on the NFL odds.

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Do note that the Thursday night game isn’t the first on the slate this week because Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans are both played on Christmas Wednesday. 

It’s the home finale for Chicago, which was supposed to be a playoff contender this season after selecting quarterback Caleb Williams at No. 1 overall in the 2024 draft. Williams has set numerous Chicago rookie passing records, but that’s honestly not saying much with that quarterback-challenged franchise, and we’d say his rookie season has been very solid but perhaps overall a bit disappointing. He is not a contender for Offensive Rookie of the Year – that will go to No. 2 overall pick and QB Jayden Daniels of Washington. Williams will have to learn an entirely new system again in 2025 when Chicago hires a new head coach and he picks his own offensive staff.

Seattle is in its first season under a new coach in Mike Macdonald, and the former Ravens defensive coordinator has done a solid job in leading the Seahawks into NFC West and wild-card contention. They generally have beaten the bad teams they were supposed to but have lost to good clubs. Seattle closes at the Los Angeles Rams.

Including two playoff matchups, Seattle is 11-8 vs. Chicago and they haven’t played since late in the 2021 season when the Bears were 25-24 upset winners in the Pacific Northwest.

Seattle Seahawks

In Year 1 of the Mike Macdonald era, the Seahawks finished 3-6 at home and that poor record on their own field likely will be why the team misses the playoffs after a tough 27-24 home defeat to Minnesota on Sunday. A late fourth-quarter facemask call was a killer for the Seahawks and helped lead to the Vikings’ winning TD. Seattle’s Jake Myers missed a 60-yard field goal with two minutes remaining. Geno Smith had three TD passes but is now 1-5 in his Seattle career with at least that many. He also had two more picks and is up to 15, second in the league. No. 1 running back Kenneth Walker returned from a two-game injury absence but then left with an ankle injury and is most likely out at least this week. Basically, Week 16 went about as badly as possible for Seattle in terms of it losing and other results as it’s now outside the playoff field and would be eliminated with a loss here and a Rams victory at home vs. Arizona on Saturday. Seattle is 4-2 ATS in its past six games.

Chicago Bears

Chicago lost its ninth straight game on Sunday, 34-17 at home to Detroit, eliminating any long-shot chance that interim head coach Thomas Brown had of getting the full-time gig. Although, rookie QB Caleb Williams has played pretty well under Brown’s watch and threw for 334 yards and two TDs in the loss while extending his no-INT streak to 326 consecutive attempts, the longest active streak in the NFL and longest by a rookie all-time. Williams now has nine straight games with at least 20 pass attempts and no picks, tied for the NFL’s third-longest streak ever by any QB. Where the team has really fallen off since head coach Matt Eberflus was fired is defensively as he called the plays for that unit. Sunday was the third straight game the Bears allowed at least 30 points. They also have allowed a 100-yard rusher in  nine straight games for the first time since 2009. The nine-game skid is the second-longest in franchise history. Chicago is 2-6-1 ATS in its past nine. 

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