Breaking Down What A.J. Jenkins Will Bring to San Francisco 49ers Offense

May 9, 2012   ·   Alen Dumonjic   ·   Jump to comments

It's Day 1 of the 2012 NFL draft and hours have passed leading up to the 49ers first-round pick, 30th overall. 49ers fans and draft pundits are expecting the franchise to select a wide receiver in the first round, a position that has had multiple prospects projected to the team. Georgia Tech's Stephen Hill and LSU's Rueben Randle are the names heavily linked, but when the pick comes in it's neither of the two; it's A.J. Jenkins of Illinois.
Who?
That's what many were asking when the team selected Jenkins, a prospect who seemingly had risen up draft boards from the mid-rounds into somehow the first round. Jenkins was nowhere as big as the towering 6'4" Stephen Hill nor as physical after the catch as the bruising Rueben Randle, yet here he was in the first and the other two were not to be selected on Day 1. 
However, what the aforementioned two didn't have that Jenkins possessed was the skill set to schematically fit into Greg Roman's offense. 
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