NFL Schedule 2023: Jalen Hurts, Eagles vs. 49ers Set for Week 13 in NFC Champ Rematch

A rematch of last season's NFC Championship Game is coming in December.

The NFL announced on Wednesday that the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles would host the San Francisco 49ers in Week 13, a Dec. 3 matchup.

The Eagles dominated the 49ers 31-7 in the NFC Championship Game, though San Francisco fans have spent much of the offseason lamenting the early injury in that game to rookie quarterback Brock Purdy and wondering what might have been different had he stayed healthy.

It was a strip-sack by Haason Reddick—pictured in the Eagles tweet about the 2023 rematch—that knocked Purdy out of the game with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow.

He wasn't the only quarterback the Eagles knocked out of the game—the league's best pass rush in 2022 also sidelined backup Josh Johnson early in the third quarter, leaving the Niners without a healthy quarterback for most of the second half.

In Philadelphia, fans weren't inclined to believe that either Niners signal-caller staying upright would have changed the eventual outcome. The Eagles dominated both lines of scrimmage, after all, as the offense rushed for 148 yards and four touchdowns.

But the Niners and their fans did not take the loss well:

So in San Francisco, this game has definitely been circled on the schedule. There isn't any love lost between these teams, at least in the Niners' locker room.

Both teams will face a difficult schedule this upcoming season, and the December matchup very well could play a big part in determining playoff seeding. The Eagles have 11 games against teams that made the playoffs in 2022, including the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, while the Niners have nine such games.