The wide receiver of the Pittsburgh steelers, DK Metcalf, on the right, talks with the attacking coordinator Arthur Smith during training at the NFL Football Minicamp in Pittsburgh, Wednesday June 11, 2025. (AP photo / Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh (AP) – The scene seemed familiar. Maybe it’s because it was.
A defender flowing at the bottom of the field, ball in hand. DK Metcalf in the relentless – and remarkably fast – pursuit.
Five years ago, it was Metcalf to find Budda Baker of Arizona 90 meters from the melee line to prevent a touchdown, a game that would be in the NFL Gif Hall of Fame, if such a thing existed (give it, it could).
Tuesday, during the first official Metcalf training with the Pittsburgh steelers after being acquired in a business with the Seahawks in March, he almost caught the new teammate Minkah Fitzpatrick while Fitzpatrick was rushed to the goal area with turnover.
This time, the whistle jumped before Metcalf’s white n ° 4 jersey reaches Fitzpatrick’s n ° 39. No one was deprived of a score. No one was Micr. And no video evidence of the sequence will never reach the Internet.
However, the maximum effort of a double Bowler Pro of the year for a period of the year Mike Tomlin described as “football lite” was noticeable.
“I mean, it’s just football,” said Metcalf with an uptop of shoulders on Wednesday. “If you see a turnover, I’m not going to only walk and let it turn the ball.” As if I’m going to get her (ass). “
This is the way in which Metcalf is wired, one of the many reasons why the Steelers have made the aggressive step to swing an agreement for the 27 -year -old, then immediately sign it to a massive extension.
While Pittsburgh has the talent to find large talented receptors in the draft – from Antonio Brown to Martavis Bryant to Juju Smith -Schuster in Diontae Johnson in George Pickens – the only thing with which he fought is to find a receiver of Pass which can be a manufacturer of difference in the field without being a manufacturer of titles.
Metcalf will have the chance to check this box and perhaps rewrite the story that surrounds his career in the process. He spent six seasons with the Seahawks as an imposing threat (6 feet 4 inches) and dynamic at the bottom of the field which also happens to be a voluntary blocker.
The fire that crosses it, however, would sometimes sing teammates and seattle coaches, while sometimes attracting the attention of officials. Metcalf’s challenge to Pittsburgh will be to properly channel things within a team that is in mass in the quarter.
Yes, Aaron Rodgers – who met Metcalf in California during the offseason for a launch session shortly after the acquisition of Metcalf by Pittsburgh – will have the ball this season. What is happening after that, however, is uncertain.
Metcalf begins in the long term, which includes the leadership service to a room that is largely lacking outside the 12 -year -old veteran, Robert Woods, signed in May. While Metcalf is still in the “Getting to know you” stage at Pittsburgh, he understands the position that his curriculum vitae and his command contract.
“I am more an advance by the example guy type,” he said. “I am not a big guy from Rah-Rah or I go to you and I tell you something there (Guy).”
He prefers to remove someone on the side for a quick conversation rather than “exploding” them in front of the whole team. This could be a step in the right direction for a group that has spent in recent years trying to resist the petulating behavior of Pickens.
Pittsburgh chose to move on, shipping the talented but Mercurial 24 years old in Dallas last month. Although this may resemble the addition by subtraction in a cloakroom which was above his antics, on the ground, he could also create a void.
Metcalf, however, warned the idea that unity cannot be productive. He is committed to being an “open book” to Calvin Austin III and Roman Wilson, who Metcalf described as “special”.
“I will also ask them questions and how they see the game,” he said. “So just pushing what they do and simply baking up ideas.”
He also plans to continue to bounce things from Rodgers, whose rapid release combined with Metcalf’s innate capacity to beat the defenders out of the fray could create the type of opportunities that did not come last season, while Metcalf had only 35 of his 66 receptions in the first Downs, a career.
Rodgers and Metcalf quickly succeeded and even spent part of their downtime together playing by playing a trivia game. Metcalf called Rodgers “a funny person” and thinks that there is an opportunity for them to transform the chemistry that they build in something special at the end of autumn.
“I hope,” he said, “we can put a product in the field that you know can last a lifetime.”
