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Stealer fans are pissed again as he was a hometown Pittsburgh guy and star at Pitt ... it's like Marvin (who is also from Pittsburgh) is now just fucking with Stealer fans and the city ... it's personal bitches! :P

fuck them... all of them

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For those looking for a breakdown of Tyler Boyd's game and how it projects to the NFL, Greg Cosell does a fantastic job on Ross Tucker's podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ross-tucker-football-podcast/id638447093?mt=2&i=365447076

Starts on Boyd at 12:11 and outside of a brief mention of Doctson, continues for a few minutes.

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That's a pretty fast looking 4.58 guy.  Lol

Great hands.  Great ball skills.  And, DAMN, those Pitt quarterbacks sucked.

hmm.....IIRC, the same 40  time a guy named Rice....the Jerry one.

The guy has football speed, faster when someone is chasing him.

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Bengals fill WR slot with Boyd in second round

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hobson60x60.jpgGeoff HobsonEditorBengals.comFollow Me Blog

After getting shut out in the first round, the Bengals dipped into the second round Friday night and drafted what very well could be their Opening Day slot receiver in Pittsburgh’s Tyler Boyd with the 55th pick.

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After getting shut out in the first round, the Bengals dipped into the second round Friday night and drafted what very well could be their Opening Day slot receiver in Pittsburgh’s Tyler Boyd with the 55th pick.

They followed that up in the third round with the selection of Utah State linebacker Nick Vigil, a 6-2, 230-pounder that immediately injects the linebacker corps with speed and youth. Vigil, who has a brother in the NFL (Zach), is viewed as league-ready and is a bright, instintive guy that can play outside or inside in a 4-3. As a junior last season, he racked up 140 tackles.

With Oklahoma's Sterling Shepard and Ohio State's Michael Thomas going ahead of them, the Bengals were quickly running out of options in an early part of a draft uncharacteristically thin at receiver. But Boyd gave them one last shot for an immediate contributor before the skelton mid-rounds. In the last eight Bengals' drafts, only perennial Pro Bowler A.J. Green and Boyd are the two receivers they've taken in the top two rounds.

The 6-2, 200-pound Boyd fits many of the Bengals’ size and speed specs when it comes to a wide receiver to replace Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu. With veteran Brandon LaFell lining up opposite perennial Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Green, Boyd can slide into Sanu's slot after a career he broke all of Larry Fitzgerald’s freshman records during a career he started all three years.

Offensive coordinator Ken Zampese said the Bengals won't hand the slot job to Boyd, but that his quickest way to get on the field is inside while working on his outside game.

The knock against him is he didn’t run many long routes, but he was a very productive guy for the Panthers and left as their all-time leading receiver.

The Bengals don’t want to compare him to Sanu but, as receivers coach James Urban said, “There are Sanu-esque things that he provides. You can poke holes in the 40 time (4.5ish), but we like to attract football players and I think we’ve got a good football player. We’ll take advantage of his skill set.”

Boyd did everything for the Panthers from catching it to running it to returning it as he became the school's second all-time career yardage leader behind only Tony Dorsett. The only thing he didn't do was go long consistently with the deep ball. Although he returned both kicks and punts, it doesn't look like the Bengals envision him doing it that much, if at all.

“He’s not a finished product, but he’s ours and we like him,” Zampese said. “You wouldn’t look at timed speed and say he’s going to run by that guy all the time. But he’s been productive with what he’s been asked to do."

Boyd is certainly a confident sort.

"I’m happy the Bengals chose a great player like myself," Boyd said. "I put myself in position to win and run good routes, keep plays alive. I’m a huge playmaker."

Asked how he rated his blocking, he offered "an eight."

He's Western Pennsylvania all the way through, from Clairton, Pa., and said there is probably a picture of him somewhere as a little kid wearing a Hines Ward jersey.

“His ideal NFL fit is the slot in a role similar to Dolphins standout Jarvis Landry,” CBS.com says. “Boyd is an exquisite catcher of the football and able to stand out by paying attention to the details, putting his value in the top 50 range.”

Boyd can only hope his career comes close to the man who announced the pick in Chicago, four-time Bengals Pro Bowl wide receiver Isaac Curtis.

 

http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Bengals-fill-WR-slot-with-Boyd-in-second-round-LB-Vigil-arrives-in-third/2358270d-e609-4813-8bbd-9a8735e45409

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Position fit:

Wide receiver. Spent 318 of his 589 snaps at outside wide receiver, and 223 in the slot

Stats to know:

Dropped just 10 of the 182 catchable passes thrown his way between 2014 and 2015

What he does best:

• Diverse route runner who has success on the majority of routes ran in 2015. Had at least one reception on 13 different routes, with no more than 191 of his receiving yards coming on a single route type
• Despite this, the post was his best route, catching all nine catchable passes thrown his way on posts for 191 yards and two touchdowns
• Smart route runner with good footwork, something that helped him make the reception on 93 percent of the passes thrown his way on hitch routes
• Versatility extends to position too. Spend most of his snaps at outside wide receiver, but also spent 223 snaps in the slot, so should fit most NFL offenses in some way

Biggest concerns:

• Really wasn’t a big play threat in 2015, averaging just 10.0 yards per catch on 94 receptions, with a season-long of 51. Did average 16.1 yards per catch in 2014, but again his season-long wasn’t earth shattering at 53 yards
• Big question on how well he can get separation downfield, caught just four of the 15 passes thrown his way on go-routes
• Ability to make people miss dropped in 2015. Forced nine missed tackles from 78 receptions in 2014, but that dropped to six from 94 this year

Pro Comparison:

Victor Cruz, New York Giants. Injuries have hampered Cruz’s career, but his 2012 and 2013 seasons are what I see as the ceiling for Boyd. Averaging 12.7 and 13.7 yards per catch in those years, Cruz was a solid receiver who wasn’t taking over games, but was a big contributor for the Giants offense. Boyd can be that type of player.

Bottom line:

Jack of all trades, master of none is something which fits quite well with what we’ve seen from Boyd. Outside of his struggles to get separation and win downfield on go-routes, he doesn’t really have a weakness, but there also isn’t anything he’s significantly better at than his peers. While he might not be the type of receiver that a team builds their offense around, he does have the ability to develop into a good second or third option in the NFL.

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Bengals Draft Rd 2: News Conference Transcripts

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Cincinnati Bengals Draft Rd 2: News Conference Transcripts

Cincinnati Bengals Draft Rd 2: News Conference Transcripts 

 

MARVIN LEWIS

Head coach

Initial comments ...

        “We’re really excited with the addition of Tyler (Boyd). He had such a productive career at the University of Pittsburgh. He got off to such a great start and has been productive in catches and receptions each year. He’s carried the football, thrown the football — he’s done it all there. He’s a competitive, strong football player, so it’s a good fit for us and where we are right now moving forward.”

 

It seems he’s a lot like former Bengals wide receiver Mohamed Sanu with all of the various skills he has ...

        “He’s probably more productive than Mo was in college, but he had maybe more opportunities than Mo had at Rutgers.”

 

What does he do well in your view?

        “He does a great job of using his body to create separation. He’s great with the ball in his hands. He seems to understand the game very well. He’s been a returner over there. We’ve got to get him better at some of that, catching the football as a returner and so forth, but that is something he has done and something he should be good at with his ability to run the ball.”

 

With the guys you lost, is it safe to assume this a guy you’re hoping you can plug right in there from Day 1?

        “Well, we don’t lose guys. We didn’t lose anybody anywhere; they got opportunities. They didn’t get lost. (laughs) But Tyler, yes, has an opportunity to come in to compete to play, and we’ve got some guys in the building who feel like they want those opportunities as well, including Mario Alford, who we drafted a year ago and has a season under his belt with us. There will be a good competition.”

 

Getting a new crop of players is what the draft is all about, but was getting a new set of weapons for quarterback Andy Dalton a priority?

        “You’ve got to retool the football team. That’s the greatest part of the NFL. We have graduation, and guys have opportunity or they move on. Either way, we have to keep restocking with good, young talent, and I think this is another good choice for this team and a chance to get better with a guy that’s still ascending.”

 

How much did his role change with different quarterbacks each year and being used differently in the offense? Did it affect his play?

        “They did more check-downs and end-arounds and things like that this year; I think he averaged something like eight or nine yards a carry or something phenomenal like that, so he got an opportunity to carry the football. You couldn’t watch a game where he wasn’t getting the ball some way this year. And I think all college receivers kind of play that way; the quarterbacks change a little bit more frequently than most NFL clubs.”

 

You always talk about looking for playmakers at the receiver position. Seeing what you saw from him, do you think he has play-making ability?

        “I think he has an opportunity to make plays with the ball in his hands — there’s no question — and he’s a strong runner. Those are things that you’ve got to be able to do at this level. He’s got to complement the other guys in the offense and I think he’ll do a really good job with that and give us another kind of weapon, which is good.”

 

The joke was made last year that you had three AJs (A.J. Green, AJ McCarron and A.J. Hawk). Now you have three Tylers (Tyler Eifert, Tyler Kroft, and now Tyler Boyd). It’s another season, another funny thing ...

        “I didn’t realize that. It’s funny, because every once in a while, somebody says, ‘A.J.’ and everybody turns. Or somebody now says, ‘Tyler.’ So Kroft is just going to have to be ‘Kroft.’ They’ve been good for us, those names.”

 

KEN ZAMPESE

Offensive coordinator

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JAMES URBAN

Wide receivers coach

What is Tyler Boyd’s major attributes? What does he do best?

        Zampese: “The thing that stuck out to me was his football instincts — his ability to separate sideways and laterally from defenders. You get a chance to see him do a lot of different things because they got it to him in a lot of different ways — handing it, throwing it. He threw the ball. You got to see everything that the guy has, which is nice to know. Sometimes you don’t get to see all those things. So we have a good idea of what he is. We have a pretty good idea of where we can take him. He’s certainly not a finished product, but he’s ours and we like him. We’re going to drag him and push him and make him compete, and drive him to where we think he can be.”

 

I know you want your receivers to take pride in blocking. This guy had the ball in his hands a lot. How is he when he doesn’t have the ball in his hands?

        Urban: “Well, you’ve got to watch a lot of film to see what he does without the ball. He’s going to do it our way, I guarantee you that. He’s willing, he’s willing. He just wasn’t asked to do a lot of those things that we’re going to ask him to do. There will be a learning curve there. But we have full confidence that he’ll do that, and we’re going to push him to do things our way.”

 

Does he project more to a slot receiver or can he play all over the field?

        Zampese: “He struck me as a guy that can play slot early, and learn the outside spot and be productive out there as we go. He’s played a lot of slot. He’s very familiar with where the bodies are coming from down in there. And he’s got good vision, football IQ and instincts to avoid and get up field.”

 

A knock on him is his lack of down-the-field, deep-ball speed. Did you see that?

        Zampese: “I think he has competitive speed. I know the timed speed doesn’t bear out, (but) when he plays, he competes, and he’s productive with the skill set he has.”

 

What stood out in his game tape?

        Urban: “If you watch a variety of games for him, you get the flavor. There were games when he played outside a lot, inside a lot. They did a lot of bringing him back in the backfield and handing the ball off to him. Lap, you referenced Sanu; there’s Sanu-esque things in the versatility he provides. The one thing we take great pride in is attracting football players. You can poke holes at a 40 time, but we think we got a good football player, and we’re going to find ways to take advantage of his skill set. We think its a good fit.”

 

Were you hoping for a wide receiver in the first round?

        Zampese: “Well we were hoping to add the best football player we could. We did that in the first round, and did it again in the second round.”

 

How do you feel about getting one of the guys in your top six or seven?

        Zampese: “I feel very good. We can’t wait to get him here and work with him.”

 

So you think he’s like Mohamed Sanu in terms of versatility and toughness?

        Urban: “I don’t want to compare Mo to him or vice versa. The versatility is the similarity — the variety of things he is capable of doing. It opens up some options for us. You guys have seen what our creative minds can come up with those kinds of players.”

 

What kind of contact with him did you have?

        Urban: “We’re very thorough. If there’s one thing we do here, we shine every rock and find out as much as we can, starting with our scouting. Coach Zampese spends more time on the road than any coordinator in the league. We work hard at it, and talk about it a lot. Its a collective effort. We’re pretty sure with what we’re getting.”

 

You try to pick guys that truly like the game. Does he fit that bill?

        Zampese: “It looks like he does on film. You can tell when you talk to him too. He’s a competitive guy. You can see when the ball’s in his hands, he’s doing everything he can to get up field. He likes making people miss — likes contact. We’re really excited about having him.”

 

What do you think about the unique crop of top wide receivers this year?

        Zampese: “They came in all shapes and sizes this year. Coach Urban digs into each one of those guys deeply to find out what makes them tick. He does a great job finding out exactly what’s inside their heads — how they go about their business, and how they fit for us. This is was one guy who had some very positive traits for us. I felt the same way, and we’re excited to have this guy.”

 

TYLER BOYD

Wide receiver, Pittsburgh

You’re from Pittsburgh, played at Pitt and now you’re coming to Cincinnati. How do you feel?

        “I’m pretty happy. I just can’t wait to start my next chapter in my life. I’m really happy and appreciative that the Cincinnati Bengals chose a great player like myself.”

 

Being a great player like you are, what do you do best?

        “The best part of my game is that I just create opportunities for myself to win. I put myself in the position to win. I put myself in the position to run good routes and beat defenders with my leverage and keep plays alive. I’m a huge playmaker.

 

You’ve played all over the field. Do you have a preference for what role your role might be?

        “I feel like I’m best in the slot or outside. They can move me around a lot. Or, even line up in the backfield, so I can get mismatches with linebackers. I feel like I’m a great aspect into that program.”

 

Is there anything that Pitt did not ask you to do last year?

        “(Laughs) I’d say one thing they did not ask me to do was tackle — go down on kickoffs or play defense. But I was a free safety coming out of high school and have no problem with being on a punt return or things like that. Anything they ask me to do, I’m suited and capable of doing.”

 

How do you rate yourself as a blocker on the edge?

        “About an eight.”

 

Out of 10?

        “I would say a 6.5, just because I’m not as bulky as everybody thinks I am. But my hard-nosed instincts to be a football player and my willingness to do things to help my team win are at a high level. So I’m going to definitely give everything that it takes and sacrifice my body to help anybody on the team create a huge play.”

 

Were you aware of the Bengals’ need at wide receiver? Did you think this was a logical place for you to wind up?

        “Definitely I was aware. Once the clock was rolling, I started not knowing where I’d go. But I knew Cincy needed a receiver. I’m grateful to be led by a great receiver like A.J. Green to help guide me to become a great receiver.”

 

How exciting is it to come to an organization that has made the playoffs several years in a row, and still there’s a need for you to come in and be an important part of this offense?

        “Definitely. I feel like I can help the team a lot with my athleticism. They can move me all around the field to create mismatches and create opportunities for myself and create opportunities for the Bengals organization to win. The element they brought with an addition like me will help guide them to that final level that they’ve been waiting to get to.”

 

Previous to the pick tonight, were you a Stealers fan?

        “(Laughs) I definitely rooted for the Stealers. That’s my hometown team. But at the end of the day, I’m going to sacrifice myself for the team who picked me and who would rather have me. So I’m going to have to completely go at the Stealers and cause them all hell (laughs).”

 

How aware are you of the current rivalry between the Bengals and Stealers?

        “(Laughs) I’m strongly aware. Some of my family members and friends are all Stealers fans. But at the end of the day, they’re going to always root for me and cheer for me. So, it is what it is. I’m really blessed for everyone to be on my side. And if they don’t support me and have my jersey on, I know deep down that they care 100 percent about me.”

 

Are there old photos of you lying around of you in Stealers jerseys as a kid?

        “(Laughs) Definitely, from when I was a youngster. I could probably pull that up. I was probably around six or seven years old. I think I had a Hines Ward jersey on (laughs).”

 

Did you hear from the Stealers at any time during this pre-draft process?

        “Yeah. I went in and met with the Stealers early on, after the combine. But I figured that they didn’t need a receiver, because they’ve got A.B. (Antonio Brown) and Martavis (Bryant) — guys that can really help that program. But at the end of the day, like I said, I’m going to do everything I can to beat the Stealers.”

 

How much time did you spend with the Bengals? Did they come to meet with you?

        “I believe they were at my pro day. And I had a formal interview with them at the combine. I felt a pretty good vibe. A lot of teams needed receivers, and I felt like I was one of them. But it doesn’t matter where I end up. I’m going to give it my all for that organization.”

 

You played Houston in a bowl game two years ago and were matched up against Bengals’ first-round pickWilliam Jackson. What do you remember about playing him and that game?

        “He was probably one of the top guys that I’ve faced. But I can tell he has a lot of dog in him. I’ve seen him play against other teams, and I know that he’s in the same caliber as me. I know he’s all about competing and trying to be the best.”

 

Describe getting the phone call that you were drafted. Who was around you? What was that like?

        “I was waiting around, just waiting for that call. It didn’t matter what team picked me, I was going to be really happy and grateful. I’m just going to celebrate with all of my family. We’ve got about 30 people at a hotel where I am, just celebrating. I’m just so happy. This is one of the happiest times in my life.”

 

 

 

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