People might be wondering what the dynamic would be between DK Metcalf and George Pickens. While we have a while to hear from Pickens, Metcalf is embracing everything that comes with having two No. 1-caliber receivers:
"Football is the ultimate team game first off, so you shouldn't be on a team if everybody doesn't want the football. I will say that," Metcalf said Thursday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. "Just to come into this organization, just to know George from the little conversations that we had in passing, great player, watching from afar. The receiver coach calls him 'freak show,' and I think that's a fitting name for him with the circus catches that he makes. But I'm just here to try to instill any wisdom or any knowledge that he allows me to, and vice versa. I feel like there's some things that I can learn from him that he does, and like you said, I've played with great receivers like Tyler Lockett, Freddie Swain, Josh Gordon was on the team my rookie year. So I've been around some very talented receivers to where I knew how to take a backseat and learn from guys like that. I'm willing to do the same if the case may be that here."
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3:56 pm - 03.16.2025South SidePeople might be wondering what the dynamic would be between DK Metcalf and George Pickens. While we have a while to hear from Pickens, Metcalf is embracing everything that comes with having two No. 1-caliber receivers:
"Football is the ultimate team game first off, so you shouldn't be on a team if everybody doesn't want the football. I will say that," Metcalf said Thursday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. "Just to come into this organization, just to know George from the little conversations that we had in passing, great player, watching from afar. The receiver coach calls him 'freak show,' and I think that's a fitting name for him with the circus catches that he makes. But I'm just here to try to instill any wisdom or any knowledge that he allows me to, and vice versa. I feel like there's some things that I can learn from him that he does, and like you said, I've played with great receivers like Tyler Lockett, Freddie Swain, Josh Gordon was on the team my rookie year. So I've been around some very talented receivers to where I knew how to take a backseat and learn from guys like that. I'm willing to do the same if the case may be that here."
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