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John Metchie III

Wide Receiver, Carolina Panthers · #13.

Player facts

Team: Carolina Panthers
Position: Wide Receiver
Number: 13
Born: Jul 18, 2000 (age 26)
Birthplace: Brampton, ON, Canada
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 187 lbs
College: Alabama
Experience: 4 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Offense

	REC	TGTS	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FD	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Regular Season	5	10	56	11.2	1	18	5	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Career	78	125	742	9.5	4	28	38	4	-1	-0.3	0	4	1	0

Advanced stats

2026 season through week 6. EPA per play is the points a play added to the team’s expected score; success rate is the share of plays that kept the offense on schedule; CPOE is completion percentage over what the throws’ difficulty predicted. Rank is by EPA per play.

	Plays	EPA/play	Success	CPOE	League rank
Receiving	13 targets	+0.64	54%		fewer than 24 plays

NFL data: nflverse, CC BY 4.0.

Recent games

			Receiving							Rushing					Fumbles
Date	Opponent	Result	REC	TGTS	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FD	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	FUM	LST
Sun, Oct 4	vs DET	W 32-26	3	5	37	12.3	0	18	3	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 27	@ CLE	L 21-18	2	5	19	9.5	1	11	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 20	@ ATL	W 34-3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0

Last 3 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

John Metchie III ( MET-chee-ay; born July 18, 2000) is a Taiwanese-Canadian professional football wide receiver and return specialist for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, winning the Jon Cornish Trophy twice prior to being selected by the Texans in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft. Metchie sat out his rookie season after being diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia and returned to play in 2023.

From Wikipedia’s article on John Metchie III, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

Metchie was born in Taiwan to a Nigerian father and Taiwanese mother on July 18, 2000. His family moved to Accra, Ghana, when he was one before moving to Brampton, Ontario, Canada, with his mother and four brothers while his father remained in Ghana. He then moved to the United States to attend St. James School in Hagerstown, Maryland. Metchie spent a post-graduate year at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, before committing to play college football at the University of Alabama.

College career

Metchie played in all 13 games as a freshman at Alabama in 2019 and had four catches for 23 yards. He became one of Alabama's top three receivers his sophomore year in 2020 racking up 916 yards on 55 receptions with six touchdowns. He was the first receiver to win the Jon Cornish Trophy as the top Canadian in NCAA football in the 2020 season. As a junior in 2021, Metchie recorded 96 receptions for 1,142 yards and eight touchdowns before tearing his ACL in the 2021 SEC Championship Game. Metchie was again named the recipient of the Jon Cornish Trophy, joining Nathan Rourke as the only two-time winners.