New details about the circumstances leading up to DK Metcalf’s trade have surfaced during the annual NFL Owners meeting in Palm Beach. Metcalf requested a trade at the beginning of March just before free agency, but that wasn’t the first time he had requested a trade to leave Seattle, according to ESPN Seahawks beat reporter Brady Henderson.
“The trade request that led the Seahawks to send DK Metcalf to Pittsburgh last month wasn’t the first time he asked out of Seattle,” Henderson wrote via ESPN. “According to team sources, the star receiver had requested trades multiple times in recent offseasons…The Seahawks didn’t plan on trading him at the start of the offseason, but they had to weight Metcalf’s prolonged unhappiness in addition to the inherent risk of signing a player to a massive third contract.