HOUSTON – Kamari Lassiter mirrored every step San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings took, matching him stride for stride downfield while reading the eyes of quarterback Mac Jones.

Retreating in single coverage, the Texans’ cornerback flipped his hips and looked back to react to the football while maintaining his leverage with stickiness that Jennings couldn’t escape.

Jennings couldn’t create separation from Lassiter as he bodied him out of the way with perfect positioning for a leaping interception in the end zone to ice the game.

It was such a thoroughly textbook application of coverage technique that it could be used to teach how to play the cornerback position at its highest level.

“It was cool, it was surreal,” Lassiter said following a 26-15 win over the 49ers at NRG S

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