I thought Metcalf would suck based on his drop in the draft despite his freakish combine. I was wrong. He’s a good player and was a great pick.
Career comp- Brandon Marshall at the high end. He’s already good could end up seeing him being elite in the next the couple of years.
Would be chincredible if they got that kind of production out of him, especially since there's almost no chance he'll be the kind of head case Marshall was.
I doubt he puts up those kind of numbers though, mainly because Seattle doesn't throw like, well, anyone. But that could be a good predictor of the type of talent he is.
The big thing for him is he has to show real improvement on tracking jump balls/making contested catches. He was bad at those at Ole Miss and has been bad so far in Seattle. If he can get those down I agree he can be elite.
I don’t think he’s been bad at that. Some of it has to do with russ never having the guy that could that and putting the ball a little too far inside.
He's been bad. His catch rate is just 51.6% and that's with the most accurate QB in football throwing to him.
I agree a little of it is on Russ not understanding how to use him but there been plenty of jump balls that Metcalf took awful routes to and/or mistimed his jumps.
He has a lot of room for improvement. He's a hard worker. I expect it will get better.
To be fair basically Russ’ only incompletions, that aren’t throwaways, have been bad jump ball/back shoulder throws to metcalf. But Metcalf should have caught of few of them.
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I doubt he puts up those kind of numbers though, mainly because Seattle doesn't throw like, well, anyone. But that could be a good predictor of the type of talent he is.
The big thing for him is he has to show real improvement on tracking jump balls/making contested catches. He was bad at those at Ole Miss and has been bad so far in Seattle. If he can get those down I agree he can be elite.
I agree a little of it is on Russ not understanding how to use him but there been plenty of jump balls that Metcalf took awful routes to and/or mistimed his jumps.
He has a lot of room for improvement. He's a hard worker. I expect it will get better.
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