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Florida Gators in the NFL: Janoris Jenkins gets first — and last? — shot at a Super Bowl

We’ve reached the Final Four of the NFL season. Three of the four teams remaining have former Gators on their active rosters. The one team that doesn’t — the San Francisco 49ers — still has Janoris Jenkins on their practice squad.

If you track and follow a few different Gators sites, you may have noticed that unlike us here, some aren’t following Jackrabbit’s NFL exploits.

Jenkins arrived in Gainesville as one of the top-rated cornerbacks in the country, a key piece of Urban Meyer’s 2008 recruiting class. Defensive backs coach Vance Bedford gave him the nickname Jackrabbit early that season because of the way he was always running around on the field without really knowing what to do.