DK Metcalf has been a solid fantasy contributor for years, but could be in position to take his game to a new level this season. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Even by the standards of NFL skill players, DK Metcalf is an unrelatable outlier of an athlete. Just an outrageous human being.
At 6-foot-4 and 230-plus pounds, Metcalf has cartoonish leaping ability and scorching in-game speed:
Simply not a normal dude. Any time Metcalf gets a defensive back off-balance and leaning, that guy is truly cooked.
In addition to being a verifiable highlight machine, Metcalf is also a decently accomplished pass-catcher. He’s eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards in three of his five seasons and he’s never finished with fewer than 900. Metcalf has made 43 house calls in 82 career games, too.
The one thing DK hasn’t yet given us — and this is certainly not a criticism — is a top-of-the-ranks supernova fantasy season. He was pretty fantastic back in 2020, delivering 1,303 yards and 10 scores on 83 receptions, but he didn’t quite crack the top-5 at his position that season and didn’t reach the rarified air occupied by Davante Adams, Tyreek Hill and Stefon Diggs.
Metcalf has obviously spent his entire career sharing the field with Tyler Lockett, another of this era’s best receivers, and he’s never played in an offense that attempted 600 passes in a season. So he hasn’t exactly had an easy path to 150-plus targets, which is the volume typically required to challenge for overall WR1 status.
But if Metcalf ever finds himself in a system that feeds him truly elite volume, there’s zero question he has the skills and traits necessary for a break-the-game season.
And this brings us to new Seattle OC Ryan Grubb, who previously held the same position at the University of Washington. You might recall the Huskies offense was an absolute Death Star in each of the past two seasons under Grubb, and with Michael Penix Jr. at the controls. Last year, they ranked second in the nation in…
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Publish date : 2024-07-02 16:14:11
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