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Bill Walsh's version of the West Coast Offense has spun off into so many different variations that making the blanket statement "you need tall wide receivers" is silly. The version that they run in Philly has always consisted of smaller, shiftier route runners that could overtake people with their speed rather than dominate them with size.

If I had to guess what Kyle Shanahan is looking for...it's easy to think of Andre Johnson as a big guy and mostly as an outside target, but what helps hims have his success is that the offensive coordinator can line him up anywhere on the field and create the most successful match ups.

That's the same thing he did with Santana Moss, and I think that's the reason we drafted Hankerson; he seems like the kind of guy you can line up at any wide receiver position and he's not going alligator arm it over the middle and he can physical enough to go outside. If you look at the Packers, all their wide receivers can do the same thing.

I think that's more of what the West Coast Offense has become about, anyway; versatile receivers, no matter what their heights are, that are excellent route runners, have great hands and create ideal match-ups all over the field.