If Tyler Boyd was used as the #2 WR in 2024 – How well would he do ? – POLL

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(01-23-2024, 12:14 AM)Whatever Wrote: Getting 148 targets and barely getting 1k yards is bad, dude.  Iirc, that was the same year Auden Tate had like 500 yards on 80 targets and people were swearing up and down that he was a "high end WR2".  He leaves here and he's clinging to a PS spot, last I checked.

You can get virtually any WR to a certain yardage amount if you just force feed him the ball enough.  Problem is, your offense is going to suck while you're trying to get him to that number.

So Tyler Boyd's best season in 2019 of 1,046 yards when he was around 25 years old is tarnished & "bad" because he had 148 targets.

He should have been cut the next year ?   -or-   Sent to the Practice Squad based on 2019 Targets

Is it always the receiver's fault that a Target is not successful ?

You may be hanging way too much on "Targets" as the be all and end all.  I do think that it is one indicator to be considered with others.

12.4 yards per Catch in 2021 and 13.1 yards per Catch in 2022   then down around 10 yards per Catch in 2023 (Burrow Calf & Browning)

At 29 years old, Boyd could have some value.   Likely #3 WR value.

I do think that he could be used for a year to hold down a #2 role while other areas of the Team were built up. (say OT. DT, RB, Corner, TE)

Would making Boyd the #2 be my first choice ?  No       But what if the Bengals did do it as part of some larger Plan where TEE is Traded ?

*TEE Higgins best year 110 Targets with 1,091 yards.  Were TEE's yards per Target special during his best season ?  BIG Money special ?