The overriding question for the 49ers in the first round of this year’s college draft was not: Who will general manager Trent Baalke pick? Obviously, that was a very important question.

The overriding question was this: Can Baalke atone for putting A.J. Jenkins’ name in an envelope in Draft 2012 as his mystery pick, and actually selecting him with the Niners’ only first-round pick, the 30th overall, this man who caught no passes last season. One wonders if Baalke jinxed himself by using the wrong kind of envelope, if he dropped the name in a legal-size envelope when a smaller one would have sufficed.

On Thursday night, Baalke selected safety Eric Reid from LSU in the first round. Reid is fast and hits hard and he will help the 49ers.

Does this atone for Jenkins and the envelope?

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