It turns out there aren’t any cones on a football field.
And when you’re a 6-4, 229-pound physical specimen with gifted hands, football instincts and blazing 4.33 40-yard dash speed, it doesn’t matter how well you run around toy-sized traffic tools.
It’s a lesson the Eagles — and every other team that could benefit from a game-changing wide receiver — learned on Sunday when DK Metcalf torched Philadelphia in the Seattle Seahawks’ 17-9 wild-card victory.
Marshawn Lynch scored the first Seattle touchdown of the game. But for much of the day when it mattered most, the Seahawks looked to their rookie wide receiver to make big plays.