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2019 NFL Draft: First Team Offense

By Brooks Austin

OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 28: A.J. Brown #1 of the Ole Miss Rebels catches a pass over Josh Liddell #28 of the Arkansas Razorbacks at Hemingway Stadium on October 28, 2017 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
OXFORD, MS - OCTOBER 28: A.J. Brown #1 of the Ole Miss Rebels catches a pass over Josh Liddell #28 of the Arkansas Razorbacks at Hemingway Stadium on October 28, 2017 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images) /
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 02: Wide receiver D.K. Metcalf of Ole Miss runs the 40-yard dash during day three of the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 2, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 02: Wide receiver D.K. Metcalf of Ole Miss runs the 40-yard dash during day three of the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 2, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /

Wide Receiver #2: D.K. Metcalf, Ole Miss

As an evaluator of talent that selfishly aspires to be as correct and accurate with their evaluation as possible, if D.K. Metcalf doesn’t keep you up at night I don’t know if a prospect ever will. I mean seriously. We’ve seen physical anomalies at the wide receiver position before, but this is different.

The guy goes 4.33 in the 40-yard dash. Which, if you’ve seen his tape from college, you knew he could beat guys deep and do so with ease so something in the 4.4’s was expected. But it’s safe to say he shut the showdown with his actual time.

That being said, if the audience was on their feet clapping during the 40 and they stuck around long enough to see the short shuttle and three-cone, they were throwing tomatoes on the stage.

The film shows that as well though. The inability to confidently get in and out of breaks was not on display, so again confirmation of what we saw but extreme confirmation. Bottom line though, if all he can ever do is run deep and do it in a hurry, he’s going to be WR2 in this class good at it.

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