NFL Combines 2019: The 4 Most Ridiculous Parts of D.K. Metcalf Performance

In February, Ole Miss Wide Receiver D.K. Metcalf gained some social media fame for resembling an Avengers member. We are talking about a wide Asgardian-sized receiver with abs resembling the shell of a Ninja Turtle.

Here is the photo that has become viral (yes, it's Metcalf left):

That would be perfectly understandable if your first reaction was: "Wait … this guy should not play the receiver." Such a fat man should play the linebacker or the second, right?

Well, he proved he was part of the receiver on Saturday by hitting all the spirits at the NFL Combine. Here are the four most ridiculous things about his performance:

1. Metcalf ran a FREAKIN '4.33 40-YARD DASH

How?!

The guys who are fat DO NOT supposed to go so fast. Metcalf measured at 6'3, 228 pounds – and 1.6 percent body fat! – Which placed it securely in all that is sub-4.6-is-great-territory.

For comparison, here is the size of the Metcalf and six other receivers to record a time on the dash of 40 yards below the 4.4 seconds bar on Saturday:

1. Parris Campbell, 4.31 seconds, 205 pounds

2. Andy Isabella, 4.31 seconds, 188 books

3. Hardman mole, 4.33 seconds, 187 pounds

4. D.K. Metcalf, 4.33 seconds, 228 pounds

5. Terry McLaurin, 4.35 seconds, 208 books

6. Emanuel Hall, 4.39 seconds, 201 pounds

7. Darius Slayton, 4.39 seconds, 190 pounds

Metcalf scored a time that was 20 or 40 pounds less for the guys.

Other recipients closer to the size of Metcalf, like Hakeem Butler of Iowa State and N'Keal Harry of the Arizona State, had fantastic days, with respectively 40 times 4.48 seconds and 4.53 seconds. These should raise their stocks of draft and they were still way behind Metcalf 4.33.

Earlier in the week, Cleveland Browns GM John Dorsey said that guys like Metcalf do not exist:

Welp.

2. Metcalf had a FREAKIN '40 .5-VERTICAL INCH

It's a lot of weight that takes off.

Emanuel Hall of Missouri and Miles Boykin of Notre Dame, tied with 43.5-inch jumps, were the best placed in the exercise. Metcalf's upright would have been the best of the class if he did it at the 2018 NFL Combine.

3. Metcalf did the 27 FREAKIN 'BENCH PRESS REPS

Metcalf (N'Keal Harry tied him with 27) did not make more benchmarks – which is not really surprising when looking at the picture above.

That's more than 32 of the 47 offensive linemen who participated in the combine exercise on Thursday. Only two of the 25 linebackers who did the bench press on Saturday made more reps than Metcalf.

The last receiver to make more than 26 representatives on the bench – before Metcalf and Harry Friday – was Greg Little in 2011, who had 27.

4. The best Metcalf comparison is FREAKIN 'BATMAN

Everyone likes to try to compare projects with NFL players to better understand their skills. But what if this perspective is basically a superhero? Then you compare him to a superhero.

A (less) silly, but perhaps more silly comparison is Calvin Johnson:

The big difference – apart from the fact that Johnson has two more inches and 11 pounds more – is that Metcalf ended his career at Ole Miss with 67 receptions, 1,228 yards and 14 touchdowns. Johnson had 178 receptions, 2927 yards, 28 touchdowns and a Biletnikoff award.

While Metcalf entered the NFL draft in 2019 after his second season of Redshirt, Megatron had stats for its monstrous combination of speed and size.

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By the end of Saturday, Metcalf may have shown that he was human after all, with low level numbers in agility exercises such as three cone exercise (7,38 seconds) and the shuttle 20 meters (4.50 seconds). This should not overshadow the rest of his superhuman performance, which probably catapulted Metcalf into the rankings.