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August 19, 2019

Knee surgery for Metcalf

Team hopeful he's ready for start of season

Seattle second-round wideout DK Metcalf has a lot of potential; he might be a starter working with Russell Wilson. But he seems very iffy for Week 1, after news that he'll undergo a knee surgery.

The Seahawks are calling it minor, but keep in mind this is Pete Carroll, who can put a positive spin on virtually anything ("'Tis but a flesh wound"). Surgery is surgery, and Metcalf will be sidelined multiple weeks (season is just three weeks away). Maybe he is ready for the opener, but he'll miss some valuable practice time.

Metcalf is big and fast, but he's also green. He missed virtually all of one college season and half of another due to injury. Also troubling is that his speed might be limited to use on go routes -- does his size compromise his change-of-direction ability? He had one of the worst 3-cone times at the combine, and that's a drill that measures lateral agility. Seattle will need to figure out how to use him properly, and get him coached up to expand that route tree.

Metcalf didn't put up big numbers in his final year of college, due to a neck injury. That's another concern. Among receivers drafted in the first and second round the last 10 years, only Dez Bryant -- and his season was limited to just 3 games -- caught fewer passes.

FINAL COLLEGE SEASON, 1ST- AND 2ND-ROUND WRS (2010-PRESENT)
Year	Rd	Pk	Player	School	No	Yds	TD
2017	2	37	Zay Jones	East Carolina	158	1746	8
2014	2	53	Davante Adams	Fresno State	131	1718	24
2014	1	20	Brandin Cooks	Oregon State	128	1730	18
2015	1	4	Amari Cooper	Alabama	124	1727	16
2012	1	5	Justin Blackmon	Oklahoma State	121	1522	18
2013	1	8	Tavon Austin	West Virginia	114	1289	12
2014	2	42	Jordan Matthews	Vanderbilt	112	1477	7
2015	1	7	Kevin White	West Virginia	109	1447	10
2012	1	20	Kendall Wright	Baylor	108	1663	14
2015	1	20	Nelson Agholor	Southern Cal	104	1313	12
2019	2	62	Andy Isabella	Massachusetts	102	1698	14
2014	1	4	Sammy Watkins	Clemson	101	1464	12
2012	1	13	Michael Floyd	Notre Dame	100	1147	9
2017	1	7	Mike Williams	Clemson	98	1361	11
2017	1	5	Corey Davis	Western Michigan	97	1500	19
2014	2	61	Allen Robinson	Penn State	97	1432	6
2018	2	51	Anthony Miller	Memphis	96	1462	18
2010	2	60	Golden Tate	Notre Dame	93	1496	15
2016	2	55	Tyler Boyd	Pittsburgh	91	926	6
2019	2	59	Parris Campbell	Ohio State	90	1063	12
2012	1	30	A.J. Jenkins	Illinois	90	1276	8
2016	2	40	Sterling Shepard	Oklahoma	86	1288	11
2019	2	51	A. J. Brown	Mississippi	85	1320	6
2011	2	64	Randall Cobb	Kentucky	84	1017	7
2014	2	45	Paul Richardson	Colorado	83	1343	10
2012	2	54	Ryan Broyles	Oklahoma	83	1157	10
2016	1	23	Laquon Treadwell	Mississippi	82	1153	11
2013	1	27	DeAndre Hopkins	Clemson	82	1405	18
2017	1	9	John Ross	Washington	81	1150	19
2018	1	24	D.J. Moore	Maryland	80	1033	9
2016	1	22	Josh Doctson	Texas Christian	79	1327	14
2011	1	6	Julio Jones	Alabama	78	1133	7
2013	2	41	Robert Woods	Southern Cal	76	846	11
2019	1	25	Marquise Brown	Oklahoma	75	1318	10
2018	2	60	James Washington	Oklahoma State	74	1549	14
2017	2	40	Curtis Samuel	Ohio State	74	865	15
2016	1	15	Corey Coleman	Baylor	74	1363	20
2019	1	32	N'Keal Harry	Arizona State	73	1088	10
2013	2	34	Justin Hunter	Tennessee	73	1083	9
2014	2	56	Cody Latimer	Indiana	72	1096	9
2018	2	47	Christian Kirk	Texas A&M	71	919	10
2012	2	33	Brian Quick	Appalachian State (N.C.)	71	1096	11
2011	2	44	Titus Young	Boise State	71	1215	9
2017	2	62	JuJu Smith-Schuster	Southern Cal	70	914	10
2014	1	7	Mike Evans	Texas A&M	69	1394	12
2018	2	40	Courtland Sutton	Southern Methodist	68	1085	13
2011	2	58	Torrey Smith	Maryland	67	1055	12
2019	2	57	JJ Arcega-Whiteside	Stanford	63	1059	14
2018	1	26	Calvin Ridley	Alabama	63	967	5
2018	2	44	Dante Pettis	Washington	63	761	7
2019	2	36	Deebo Samuel	South Carolina	62	882	11
2016	1	21	Will Fuller	Notre Dame	62	1258	14
2015	2	41	Devin Funchess	Michigan	62	733	4
2011	2	59	Greg Little	North Carolina	62	724	5
2015	2	40	Dorial Green-Beckham	Missouri	59	883	12
2014	1	12	Odell Beckham Jr.	Louisiana State	59	1152	9
2014	2	39	Marqise Lee	Southern Cal	57	791	4
2013	2	59	Aaron Dobson	Marshall	57	679	3
2011	1	4	A.J. Green	Georgia	57	848	9
2016	2	47	Michael Thomas	Ohio State	56	781	9
2014	2	63	Jarvis Landry	Louisiana State	56	573	5
2014	1	28	Kelvin Benjamin	Florida State	54	1011	15
2012	2	63	Rueben Randle	Louisiana State	53	917	8
2011	1	26	Jon Baldwin	Pittsburgh	53	822	5
2015	1	26	Breshad Perriman	Central Florida	50	1044	9
2012	2	45	Alshon Jeffery	South Carolina	49	762	8
2013	1	29	Cordarrelle Patterson	Tennessee	46	778	5
2010	1	22	Demaryius Thomas	Georgia Tech	46	1154	8
2010	2	36	Dexter McCluster	Mississippi	44	520	3
2015	1	14	DeVante Parker	Louisville	43	855	5
2012	2	supp	Josh Gordon	Baylor	42	714	7
2018	2	61	D.J. Chark	Louisiana State	40	874	4
2010	2	39	Arrelious Benn	Illinois	38	490	2
2015	1	29	Phillip Dorsett	Miami	36	871	10
2019	2	56	Mecole Hardman	Georgia	35	543	7
2015	2	37	Devin Smith	Ohio State	33	931	12
2012	2	43	Stephen Hill	Georgia Tech	28	820	5
2019	2	64	D.K. Metcalf	Mississippi	26	569	5
2010	1	24	Dez Bryant	Oklahoma State	17	323	4

Other 2019 rookies drafted in the first two rounds are listed in bold. College production obviously isn't everything. Some of the guys near the top of the list -- Tavon Austin, Kevin White -- turned out to be nothing special. Had Metcalf played a full season last year, he'd show up more favorably.

Still, this surgery and his general lack of experience could work against him having a major rookie impact.

--Andy Richardson

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