Its a valid question, and teams often look at prospects harder because of the talent they are surrounded by or the scheme they run. For instance, the knock on Slaton was that he ran the spread, and he too had some cavernous holes to run through.
It just makes the evaluation more difficult. Along the lines of what you were saying, Sanchez's success in the rose bowl was more a function of the offensive game plan than any spectacular decision making or plays on his part.
How may times did they throw that same skinny post in the seam to exploit Penn State's Cover 3? They were the exact same throw each time, they were good throws but nothing spectacular.
Still I believe that Sanchez has first round talent, and I believe that San Fran might look at him in the first, because Alex Smith is not the answer, Shaun Hill's success is more a function of Martz offense than anything else. And as we have seen Martz offense transforms servicable QB's into something more, in the same way that Jeff Tedford's scheme does.
On the other hand, it has only been 3? years since they drafted Smith and that might be too close, temporally, to the last time they got burnt by a # 1.
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