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49ers' Javon Kinlaw might be 'too powerful' to be blocked one-on-one

Javon Kinlaw has some awfully large shoes to fill in replacing DeForest Buckner on the 49ers' defensive line. However, even if San Francisco's first-round draft pick doesn't have feet as large as the 6-foot-7 Buckner, he should be plenty big enough to handle the speed and physicality of the NFL -- right away.

"I don't know that any one player, even at the NFL level, can handle him one-on-one," NFL Network's Brian Baldinger said of Kinlaw in a phone conversation with The Athletic's David Lombardi. "I think he's just too powerful. He's 325 pounds on a chiseled 6-foot-5 1/2 frame with long arms.