After losing five of their six games before their bye week, the Seattle Seahawks have won four in a row to lead an intriguing NFC West following an impressive 30-18 success over the Arizona Cardinals.

Running back Zach Charbonnet had a career-best 134 rushing yards and two touchdowns and the improving Seahawks defence stifled Kyler Murray for the second time in three weeks.

With quarterback Geno Smith leading the league with 3,474 passing yards, Seattle could be getting hot just at the right time – but upcoming games against the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings will tell us more about just how far they can go.

The San Francisco 49ers are bottom of the NFC West but kept in touch with a dominant 38-13 success over the Chicago Bears – easily their best performance of the season.

George Kittle had a monster 151-yard game and the 49ers defence produced the kind of dominance that has been lacking, throttling Chicago’s offence to the tune of only four first-half yards, the lowest total in the NFL this century.