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Getty Jauan Jennings celebrates.
When the San Francisco 49ers picked Jauan Jennings in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft, expectations didn’t exactly skyrocket. Jennings, one of the slowest receivers in the 2020 class with a 4.72 40 combine record, received priority free agent status from NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein, with the veteran scout concerned about his “” lack of speed. functional and general speed “could prevent him from hearing his name during the three days of military service.
Although the Niners ultimately found themselves slightly taller on Jennings than Zierlein when they picked him with third pick in the seventh round, he ultimately failed to get the 53-man roster off the field and got stuck for those of the training team in full. beginner season. However, something in Jennings’ game inspired the intrigues of John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, and the duo decided to sign a futures contract for the former Mr. Tennessee that runs until 2022, making him a royalty-free agent in 2023.
With another opportunity to make the list, Jennings proved to be a much improved player and ultimately stayed around when the list was reduced to 53. Despite a slow start to the regular season with only 38 yards in five catches and a touchdown between Week 1 and Week 11, Jennings slowly became a valuable cog in the Niners offense, finishing the final seven weeks of the season with 19 more catches for 244 yards and four more touchdowns. With six more catches in the team’s three playoff races for 43 yards total, Jennings arrived in 2022 in a very different place than the year before, even after Danny Gray was drafted by the SMU in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft.
Jennings did very well for the San Francisco 49ers in week 1
The 49ers’ first week match against the Chicago Bears is probably the one many fans would like to forget. The pitch was drenched in rain, the yellow penalty flag waved freely, and in the end the Niners secured a defeat in a match many favored them for victory. Considering the loss of Elijah Mitchell to an MCL tribe, and the prospect of burning the film and returning to San Francisco sounded pretty good for the likes of Nick Bosa.
One of the real bright spots that shone during the grim affair, however, was Jennings’ play, who was one of the team’s three wide starting catchers for 62 yards on four receptions. Jennings, who split his time between perimeter and slot, was ranked as the Niners’ second-best offensive player behind only Mike McGlinchey, according to Pro Football Focus, earning an overall offensive rating of 74.2 and a rating of receiving 72.4 out of 41 offensive – Sprint.
Jennings recorded the longest catch of the match at 44 yards via a third down post route, received a 16-yard reception on the match’s penultimate drive, and even made a few blocks, although he sniffed one on the goal line that would have aided able to set up a Jordan Wilson landing run. If Jennings manages to hone his technique in the running game, there’s no reason to think Shanahan won’t give him more than 60 percent of the team’s offensive shots, even with Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk ahead of him.
Jauan Jennings has an intriguing encounter in week 2
Historically, Pete Carroll’s team has adopted a press zone 3 cover look that allows perimeter cornerbacks to play a “silo” cover on their respective sides of the pitch from a single high alignment, effectively allowing attacking coordinators to place their defenders at one level.
When the Seahawks’ Legion of Boom disbanded and the league adopted the team’s Cover 3 philosophy, Seattle settled into a new defensive identity called “CLEO” that combines elements of Cover 2 and Cover 4.
In the first week of the 2022 NFL season, the Seattle Seahawks relied on Michael Jordan on the outside and Tariq Woolen and Justin Coleman on the slot. While Coleman is the more experienced of the three players as the 29-year-old has played 96 games for four different teams, he is only 5-foot-11 tall and earned a 57.2 Pro Football Focus Defensive Grade Broncos for his he efforts against Denver.
If Jennings is able to match Coleman in the slot, she has a good chance of bullying the smaller cornerback and earning another mismatched reception of over 40 yards similar to the one she received in week 1. If however, Jennings is covered by Woolen, which is a 6-foot-4 angle that ran a 4.28-40 at the combine and missed a hold in week 1, his afternoon may not go so smoothly.
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