DK Metcalf

WR · SEA/PIT · 2019–2026

Born December 14, 1997 · College Mississippi · Drafted 2019, round 2, pick 64 (SEA) · 6-4, 235 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2020) · Pro Bowl ×2 (2020, 2023)

EPA per target by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2019	SEA	16	2	11	0	5.50	+0.127	50.0	+0.3	+0.01
2021	SEA	17	1	6	0	6.00	+0.222	100.0	+0.2	+0.00
2025	PIT	15	2	12	1	6.00	+0.843	100.0	+1.7	+0.02
2026	PIT	8	1	11	0	11.00	+1.137	100.0	+1.1	+0.03
Career	PIT	120	6	40	1	6.67	+0.550	83.3	+3.3	+0.06

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2019	SEA	16	100	58	900	7	58.0	+0.257	+0.271+0.116 to +0.427	20.2	12.9	+25.7	+0.72
2019 playoffs	SEA	2	14	11	219	1	78.6	+1.068		24.6	15.6	+15.0	+0.42
2020	SEA	16	129	83	1,303	10	64.3	+0.460	+0.396+0.247 to +0.544	24.0	13.7	+59.4	+1.80
2020 playoffs	SEA	1	11	5	96	2	45.5	−0.457		42.3	17.8	−5.0	−0.14
2021	SEA	17	129	75	967	12	58.1	+0.222	+0.259+0.110 to +0.408	27.2	12.7	+28.7	+0.67
2022	SEA	17	141	90	1,048	6	63.8	+0.057	+0.184+0.038 to +0.330	25.5	11.2	+8.0	+0.25
2022 playoffs	SEA	1	13	10	136	2	76.9	+0.950		38.2	13.8	+12.3	+0.16
2023	SEA	16	119	66	1,114	8	55.5	+0.358	+0.295+0.144 to +0.446	22.8	12.8	+42.6	+2.13
2024	SEA	15	108	66	992	5	61.1	+0.223	+0.260+0.106 to +0.414	21.3	13.7	+24.1	+0.60
2025	PIT	15	99	59	850	6	59.6	+0.333	+0.289+0.132 to +0.445	22.4	10.5	+32.9	+0.65
2025 playoffs	PIT	1	5	2	42	0	40.0	+0.063		16.1	11.4	+0.3	+0.05
2026	PIT	8	64	33	378	1	51.6	−0.033	+0.212+0.046 to +0.379	23.9	12.6	−2.1	+0.40
Career	PIT	120	889	530	7,552	55	59.6	+0.247		23.4	12.5	+219.2	+7.21

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles
2019	SEA	16	1
2020	SEA	16	3
2021	SEA	17	1
2022	SEA	17	1
2023	SEA	16	2
2025	PIT	15	4
2026	PIT	8	1
Career	PIT	120	13

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2020	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2023	Pro Bowl

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2019	SEA	16	920	84.6	–	–
2019 playoffs	SEA	2	109	94.0	–	–
2020	SEA	16	976	93.5	–	–
2020 playoffs	SEA	1	60	98.4	–	–
2021	SEA	17	816	83.3	–	–
2022	SEA	17	887	82.4	–	–
2022 playoffs	SEA	1	56	83.6	–	–
2023	SEA	16	820	84.4	–	–
2024	SEA	15	823	86.6	–	–
2025	PIT	15	775	88.6	–	–
2025 playoffs	PIT	1	49	86.0	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2022	141	76.6	5	4.6	45	51.1
2023	119	58.0	2	2.9	28	25.0
2024	108	71.3	3	3.9	26	19.2
2025	99	67.7	4	6.0	19	31.6
2026	64	64.1	5	12.2	19	26.3

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2026-09-13	vs ATL	W 20–13	0	0	0.0	10	4	40	0	−5.4	0
2	2026-09-20	@ NE	L 3–20	0	0	0.0	9	4	27	0	−3.2	0
3	2026-09-27	vs CIN	W 30–27	0	0	0.0	5	3	31	1	+2.5	0
4	2026-10-01	@ CLE	L 24–27	0	0	0.0	9	5	115	0	+5.6	0
5	2026-10-11	vs IND	W 34–22	1	11	+1.1	4	3	12	0	−0.7	0
6	2026-10-18	@ TB	W 26–19 OT	0	0	0.0	15	11	93	0	+2.8	0
7	2026-10-25	@ NO	W 16–10	0	0	0.0	6	2	56	0	+1.9	0
8	2026-11-01	vs CLE	W 27–6	0	0	0.0	6	1	4	0	−5.6	1

2025 game log (16 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2025-09-07	@ NYJ	W 34–32	0	0	0	0.0	7	4	83	0	+5.5	0
2	2025-09-14	vs SEA	L 17–31	0	0	0	0.0	6	3	20	1	+2.0	0
3	2025-09-21	@ NE	W 21–14	0	0	0	0.0	4	3	32	1	+2.6	1
4	2025-09-28	vs MIN	W 24–21	0	0	0	0.0	5	5	126	1	+10.1	0
6	2025-10-12	vs CLE	W 23–9	0	0	0	0.0	9	4	95	1	+4.5	0
7	2025-10-16	@ CIN	L 31–33	0	0	0	0.0	5	3	50	0	+0.4	2
8	2025-10-26	vs GB	L 25–35	0	0	0	0.0	7	5	55	1	+3.6	0
9	2025-11-02	vs IND	W 27–20	0	0	0	0.0	4	2	6	0	−2.2	0
10	2025-11-09	@ LAC	L 10–25	0	0	0	0.0	7	3	35	0	−7.7	0
11	2025-11-16	vs CIN	W 34–12	0	0	0	0.0	8	5	49	0	+0.6	0
12	2025-11-23	@ CHI	L 28–31	2	12	1	+1.7	8	5	22	0	−4.6	1
13	2025-11-30	vs BUF	L 7–26	0	0	0	0.0	5	3	32	0	+4.9	0
14	2025-12-07	@ BAL	W 27–22	0	0	0	0.0	12	7	148	0	+6.8	0
15	2025-12-15	vs MIA	W 28–15	0	0	0	0.0	3	3	55	1	+6.2	0
16	2025-12-21	@ DET	W 29–24	0	0	0	0.0	9	4	42	0	+0.2	0
P19	2026-01-12	vs HOU	L 6–30	0	0	0	0.0	5	2	42	0	+0.3	0

2024 game log (15 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2024-09-08	vs DEN	W 26–20	4	3	29	0	+1.6
2	2024-09-15	@ NE	W 23–20 OT	14	10	129	1	+5.0
3	2024-09-22	vs MIA	W 24–3	6	4	104	1	+6.2
4	2024-09-30	@ DET	L 29–42	12	7	104	0	−5.3
5	2024-10-06	vs NYG	L 20–29	7	4	55	0	−4.2
6	2024-10-10	vs SF	L 24–36	11	3	48	0	−5.1
7	2024-10-20	@ ATL	W 34–14	7	4	99	1	+7.4
11	2024-11-17	@ SF	W 20–17	9	7	70	0	+4.0
12	2024-11-24	vs ARI	W 16–6	5	4	59	0	+4.4
13	2024-12-01	@ NYJ	W 26–21	9	4	66	0	+1.4
14	2024-12-08	@ ARI	W 30–18	6	4	49	0	+2.7
15	2024-12-15	vs GB	L 13–30	3	3	28	0	+1.4
16	2024-12-22	vs MIN	L 24–27	7	3	57	1	−0.5
17	2024-12-26	@ CHI	W 6–3	3	3	42	0	+1.7
18	2025-01-05	@ LA	W 30–25	5	3	53	1	+3.4

2023 game log (16 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2023-09-10	vs LA	L 13–30	5	3	47	1	+3.5	0
2	2023-09-17	@ DET	W 37–31 OT	6	6	75	0	+7.4	0
3	2023-09-24	vs CAR	W 37–27	8	6	112	0	+6.3	1
4	2023-10-02	@ NYG	W 24–3	4	3	34	1	+2.5	0
6	2023-10-15	@ CIN	L 13–17	9	4	69	0	−1.2	0
8	2023-10-29	vs CLE	W 24–20	14	5	67	0	−3.9	0
9	2023-11-05	@ BAL	L 3–37	4	1	50	0	−0.8	0
10	2023-11-12	vs WAS	W 29–26	12	7	98	0	+1.1	0
11	2023-11-19	@ LA	L 16–17	9	5	94	1	+5.5	0
12	2023-11-23	vs SF	L 13–31	9	3	32	0	−4.1	0
13	2023-11-30	@ DAL	L 35–41	8	6	134	3	+14.9	0
14	2023-12-10	@ SF	L 16–28	5	2	52	1	+0.7	1
15	2023-12-18	vs PHI	W 20–17	6	5	78	0	+4.6	0
16	2023-12-24	@ TEN	W 20–17	6	4	56	1	+5.4	0
17	2023-12-31	vs PIT	L 23–30	8	5	106	0	+5.0	0
18	2024-01-07	@ ARI	W 21–20	6	1	10	0	−4.2	0

2022 game log (18 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2022-09-12	vs DEN	W 17–16	7	7	36	0	−4.7	0
2	2022-09-18	@ SF	L 7–27	6	4	35	0	−5.4	0
3	2022-09-25	vs ATL	L 23–27	12	5	64	1	−1.0	0
4	2022-10-02	@ DET	W 48–45	10	7	149	0	+10.8	0
5	2022-10-09	@ NO	L 32–39	8	5	88	1	+0.5	0
6	2022-10-16	vs ARI	W 19–9	7	2	34	0	−0.2	0
7	2022-10-23	@ LAC	W 37–23	2	1	12	0	+0.6	0
8	2022-10-30	vs NYG	W 27–13	10	6	55	1	+2.5	0
9	2022-11-06	@ ARI	W 31–21	6	5	37	1	+3.8	0
10	2022-11-13	@ TB	L 16–21	9	6	71	0	+1.1	0
12	2022-11-27	vs LV	L 34–40 OT	15	11	90	0	+1.5	0
13	2022-12-04	@ LA	W 27–23	8	8	127	1	+9.5	0
14	2022-12-11	vs CAR	L 24–30	10	5	71	1	+1.7	0
15	2022-12-15	vs SF	L 13–21	9	7	55	0	+0.4	0
16	2022-12-24	@ KC	L 10–24	9	7	81	0	+2.3	0
17	2023-01-01	vs NYJ	W 23–6	5	1	3	0	−5.0	0
18	2023-01-08	vs LA	W 19–16 OT	8	3	40	0	−10.4	1
P19	2023-01-14	@ SF	L 23–41	13	10	136	2	+12.3	0

2021 game log (17 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2021-09-12	@ IND	W 28–16	0	0	0.0	5	4	60	1	+3.1	0
2	2021-09-19	vs TEN	L 30–33 OT	0	0	0.0	11	6	53	0	−3.2	0
3	2021-09-26	@ MIN	L 17–30	0	0	0.0	9	6	107	1	+7.5	0
4	2021-10-03	@ SF	W 28–21	0	0	0.0	8	4	65	1	+1.7	0
5	2021-10-07	vs LA	L 17–26	0	0	0.0	5	5	98	2	+10.6	0
6	2021-10-17	@ PIT	L 20–23 OT	0	0	0.0	7	6	58	0	+1.8	1
7	2021-10-25	vs NO	L 10–13	0	0	0.0	5	2	96	1	+3.6	0
8	2021-10-31	vs JAX	W 31–7	0	0	0.0	6	6	43	2	+3.3	0
10	2021-11-14	@ GB	L 0–17	0	0	0.0	8	3	26	0	−5.8	0
11	2021-11-21	vs ARI	L 13–23	0	0	0.0	8	4	31	0	−1.1	0
12	2021-11-29	@ WAS	L 15–17	0	0	0.0	4	1	13	0	−0.8	0
13	2021-12-05	vs SF	W 30–23	0	0	0.0	8	5	60	0	+2.6	0
14	2021-12-12	@ HOU	W 33–13	0	0	0.0	8	4	43	0	+1.0	0
15	2021-12-21	@ LA	L 10–20	0	0	0.0	12	6	52	0	−2.3	0
16	2021-12-26	vs CHI	L 24–25	0	0	0.0	5	2	41	1	−0.1	0
17	2022-01-02	vs DET	W 51–29	1	6	+0.2	9	6	63	3	+6.5	0
18	2022-01-09	@ ARI	W 38–30	0	0	0.0	11	5	58	0	+0.3	0

2020 game log (17 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	@ ATL	W 38–25	8	4	95	1	+8.4	0
2	2020-09-20	vs NE	W 35–30	6	4	92	1	+6.7	0
3	2020-09-27	vs DAL	W 38–31	8	4	110	1	−1.3	0
4	2020-10-04	@ MIA	W 31–23	6	4	106	0	+2.0	0
5	2020-10-11	vs MIN	W 27–26	11	6	93	2	+8.0	1
7	2020-10-25	@ ARI	L 34–37 OT	5	2	23	0	−2.9	2
8	2020-11-01	vs SF	W 37–27	15	12	161	2	+9.8	0
9	2020-11-08	@ BUF	L 34–44	9	7	108	1	+5.3	0
10	2020-11-15	@ LA	L 16–23	4	2	28	0	+0.9	0
11	2020-11-19	vs ARI	W 28–21	5	3	46	1	+2.5	0
12	2020-11-30	@ PHI	W 23–17	13	10	177	0	+12.9	0
13	2020-12-06	vs NYG	L 12–17	8	5	80	0	+3.9	0
14	2020-12-13	vs NYJ	W 40–3	8	6	61	1	+0.7	0
15	2020-12-20	@ WAS	W 20–15	6	5	43	0	+2.0	0
16	2020-12-27	vs LA	W 20–9	8	6	59	0	+5.1	0
17	2021-01-03	@ SF	W 26–23	9	3	21	0	−4.7	0
P18	2021-01-09	vs LA	L 20–30	11	5	96	2	−5.0	0

2019 game log (18 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2019-09-08	vs CIN	W 21–20	0	0	0.0	6	4	89	0	+4.2	0
2	2019-09-15	@ PIT	W 28–26	0	0	0.0	7	3	61	1	+4.7	0
3	2019-09-22	vs NO	L 27–33	0	0	0.0	6	2	67	0	−1.5	0
4	2019-09-29	@ ARI	W 27–10	0	0	0.0	4	1	6	0	−2.2	0
5	2019-10-03	vs LA	W 30–29	0	0	0.0	3	2	44	1	+3.4	0
6	2019-10-13	@ CLE	W 32–28	1	4	−0.0	5	4	69	0	+6.7	0
7	2019-10-20	vs BAL	L 16–30	0	0	0.0	9	4	53	0	−7.5	0
8	2019-10-27	@ ATL	W 27–20	0	0	0.0	5	3	13	2	+2.9	0
9	2019-11-03	vs TB	W 40–34 OT	1	7	+0.3	9	6	123	1	+6.6	0
10	2019-11-11	@ SF	W 27–24 OT	0	0	0.0	10	6	70	0	−3.9	0
12	2019-11-24	@ PHI	W 17–9	0	0	0.0	6	3	35	0	−1.4	0
13	2019-12-02	vs MIN	W 37–30	0	0	0.0	7	6	75	0	+0.7	0
14	2019-12-08	@ LA	L 12–28	0	0	0.0	6	6	78	0	+6.4	0
15	2019-12-15	@ CAR	W 30–24	0	0	0.0	4	2	36	1	+2.0	1
16	2019-12-22	vs ARI	L 13–27	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.6	0
17	2019-12-29	vs SF	L 21–26	0	0	0.0	12	6	81	1	+5.1	0
P18	2020-01-05	@ PHI	W 17–9	0	0	0.0	9	7	160	1	+11.6	0
P19	2020-01-12	@ GB	L 23–28	0	0	0.0	5	4	59	0	+3.4	0