NFL Combine 2019: Draft prospects who stood out

D.K. Metcalf, WR, Ole Miss

As crazy as this sounds because it was to expect that Metcalf would blow up the combine, but he really might have been the biggest athletic freak we have ever seen run around in that setting in Indy.

Metcalf already made noise with a picture of his workout crew at EXOS, where looked as chiseled as I have ever seen anybody at the wide receiver position and that only increased when the 6’3”, 228-pounder was scanned at 1.6 percent body fat before even doing any work. He also tied a record for bench press reps among wide receivers with 27. So he was already a major topic of discussion before he even stepped onto the field, but he only went off from there.

Metcalf ran a 4.33 in the forty as well as jumping 40.5 inches on the vertical and 11’2” on the broad jumps. While there is definitely a discussion to be had about having worse numbers on those agility tests (three-cone-drill and 20-yard shuttle) than Tom Brady (!), I thought Metcalf got out of his breaks and caught the ball very well for a big physical specimen.