When light hits the metal, it imparts some momentum. Is it possible (and this is a stupendously naive mental picture and not what would actually be happening,

When light hits the metal, it imparts some momentum. Is it possible (and this is a stupendously naive mental picture and not what would actually be happening, I realize that) that the metal moves in one direction, kicking free electrons back the other direction? Like if you had a sheet of drywall covered in dust hanging from a rope and you threw a baseball at it. The drywall would move in the direction of the balls flight, but the dust would get kicked off back in the direction the ball came from. Is the amount of current created consistent with this sort of picture, electrons being kicked off as the metal absorbs the momentum and accelerates away?