Tyler Boyd (WR, CIN) - Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Pickups for Week 4

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 51% of Leagues

ANALYSIS: It's been quite a wild start to the season for Tyler Boyd and the Cincinnati Bengals by extension. An overtime loss to the Steelers, a defeat to the Dak Prescott-less Cowboys, and finally an expected win against the Jets this past Sunday to fix (at least some of) their wrongs to date. Boyd, like the Bengals as a whole, has been in a crazy up-and-down-and-up trend to kick the year off.

After going for 13.3 PPR points in Week 1 (4-of-7 receptions for 33 yards and one TD), all Boyd could do at Dallas was grab his two targets for a measly 17-yard outing and 5.7 PPR points. The opportunities weren't really that many more this past weekend, but Boyd definitely made the most of them – including scoring his second touchdown of the season on a 50+ yard reception.

Boyd is coming off a 20.5-PPR game that (pending MNF) saw him enter the WR1 realm. Of course, he needed his teammates Ja'Marr Chase (6-of-10, 29 yards, one TD) and Tee Higgins (5-of-7, 93 yards) to "underperform" in order to enable him to reach those heights.

The Bengals' offense is as chalky as it gets, though. There is a clear one-two-three pecking order at the wide receiver position, a go-to TE in Hayden Hurst, and another clear playmaker in workhorse-RB Joe Mixon. Nothing will change that, and all members of the receiving corps run the same amount of routes with varying results depending on where QB Joe Burrow puts his eyes and tosses the rock after scanning the field.

Boyd is still relatively available in the fantasy landscape. He is still sitting on the shelves of half of Yahoo leagues these days so there is a chance you can find him in your WW ahead of Week 4. Don't hesitate to add him to your team if that's the case, as there aren't many proved and tested wideouts in the NFL with Boyd's upside still freely available.

The only thing keeping us from labeling Boyd an "All-League WW Target" is basically the competition for targets in the Bengals offense. Out of context and based on his own talent he should be rostered at 100% and started weekly everywhere.

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