Strengths: Mendenhall is a beautiful bodied athlete with tremendous ability.  He decisively hits his running lane, and has the power to break through arm tackles with ease.  His agility is vastly underrated do to the gimmick offense run at Illinois, but expect this back to shoot up drat boards after the scouting combine. Mendenhal also has above average hands out of the backfield.

Weaknesses: Wasn't asked to do much pass protection and while at Illinois. 

NFL Type:  Garrison Hearst (Georgia)