"Mendenhall and Hill both spoke of a recent sit-down in which the coach showed his incumbent signal-caller some video of current San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick, who as a collegian at Nevada helped the Wolfpack to a win over BYU in Provo.

"I watched some of Kaepernick when he played at Nevada," said Hill, "when their offense was one of the best in the country--and that was based primarily on the run game."

"Kaepernick's ability to run the football obviously draws comparison (to Hill)," said Mendenhall. "(Nevada's former) scheme draws comparison. The difference is in Kaepernick's range in terms of size, but speed is similar, and I think proficiency and efficiency in how productive Kaepernick was in terms of number of wins is something Taysom would love to do in helping our team.

"The efficiency of how (Kaepernick) ran the offense, and positive plays, and decision making is what we were talking about."

Noting that Kaepernick was expert at using the sideline to his advantage and stepping out at the boundary to avoid contact, Mendenhall said the physical Hill may have to manage at a higher level his avoidance of contact.

"We're working on that a little bit," Mendenhall acknowledged. He says in showing Hill video of Kaepernick's sideline techniques, "I stopped it, rewound it, stopped it, rewound it, stopped it, rewound it, until Taysom said 'I got it, Coach.'

"I've heard that repetition builds habits...so I have a few more meetings with him."

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