49ers draft pick Trent Taylor: a short receiver who grows on you

49ers draft pick Trent Taylor: a short receiver who grows on you Five years before 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan became smitten with a wide receiver who was too tiny and too slow, Tony Franklin was the first to fall in love with Trent Taylor. In 2012, Franklin was Louisiana Tech's offensive coordinator and Taylor was a 160-pound high school senior who couldn't get some Division II schools to notice him. [...] Franklin couldn't take his eyes off him when Taylor attended Louisiana Tech's summer camp. Taylor was so impressive that Bulldogs wide receivers Quinton Patton and Myles White, both future NFL players, made mid-camp pleas to Franklin: "They came running across the field at me and were screaming 'If you don't take him, you're crazy,'" Franklin said. Others probably thought Franklin was silly when it came to his huge crush on the shrimp-sized slot receiver: Louisiana Tech was the only Division I school to offer Taylor a scholarship. Despite pre-draft speculation that Taylor wouldn't be picked, the 49ers selected him in the fifth round, and Shanahan has said he was his favorite player in the draft. Franklin, now the offensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee State, thinks...