Denzel Boston On Day 2?
April 12th, 2026
Washington WR Denzel Boston.
Hey, if the Bucs go defense in the first round, how about trying to replace a Bucs legend with a guy who has similar traits on Day 2?
You don’t really replace future Hall of Famers; you just hope the replacement plays strong enough so the loss of the legend doesn’t sting too much. And that could be a situation for the Bucs.
Joe still has bitter beer face over Mike Evans leaving. Yeah, the Bucs have aging Chris Godwin and Jalen McMillan and Emeka Egbuka. But is there some law that the Bucs can’t bring in a receiver who has Evans’ qualities?
Joe is referring to Washington wide receiver Denzel Boston. He plays sort of like Evans (like a basketball player), high-points the ball like Evans and has excellent footwork along the boundary like Evans.
But he’s not Evans. Who is?
Still, what jumped out about Boston in Dane Brugler’s exhaustive draft guide, “The Beast,” is Boston had a 3.1 percent drop rate. That’s crazy good.
A two-year starter at Washington, Boston was primarily a perimeter receiver (81.3 percent of snaps aligned wide) in head coach Jedd Fisch’s offense. He joined a Huskies wide receiver room that included Rome Odunze, Jalen McMillan, Germie Bernard and Ja’Lynn Polk, and he waited his turn before leading the team in receiving in both 2024 and ‘25. He was productive at every level of the field, especially near the goal line (14 of his 20 touchdown catches came in the red zone).
A good-sized athlete, Boston plays big and balanced with vacuum hands (3.1 percent drop rate). He treats the catch point like he’s a power forward in the paint, boxing out and using his rangy frame and focus to secure the football. Ball placement wasn’t a strength of Washington quarterbacks, which created opportunities for Boston to show off his catch radius. He doesn’t have the juice to simply run by NFL man coverage, and he won’t be known for his after-the-catch skills, but he is a proven chain-mover (79 percent of his 2025 catches resulted in either a first down or touchdown). Overall, Boston builds his speed with smooth, long strides and naturally adjusts with the hand strength of a ball winner, which should quickly earn him the trust of an NFL quarterback. With his ability to win inside or outside, his game has shades of 2025 Houston Texans draft pick Jayden Higgins.
Again, Joe is not saying Boston is Evans. That’s irresponsible.
Brugler believes Boston is, at worst, a second-round draft pick. That may be high for the Bucs since head coach Todd Bowles said you attack needs on the second day of the draft.
Not sure receiver is that big of a need, even though Evans is gone.
Denzel Boston 62 REC, 881 YDS, 12 TDs 2025 Season Highlights.
Projected first round pick WR.pic.twitter.com/MWnUOhQW9f https://t.co/zRhJMhrs2H
— Football Performances (@NFLPerformances) February 20, 2026
April 12th, 2026 at 11:11 am
No thanks, the guy is nothing special. It’d bring down the receivers room if the Bucs added a guy that wasn’t up to their level
April 12th, 2026 at 11:14 am
Sounds good!! Go for it.
April 12th, 2026 at 11:15 am
Oreg. look at the size of his hands. He is a good pick to catch Bakefield scramble balls.
April 12th, 2026 at 11:18 am
Take him in 1st pick after trade down.
April 12th, 2026 at 11:26 am
Who cares what players get drafted for this clown show. 🤡
April 12th, 2026 at 11:40 am
Denzel Boston is a solid WR, with soft hands
He don’t drop many passes
April 12th, 2026 at 11:53 am
3rd down, well you care obviously or you wouldn’t be posting on a Sunday morning on a Bucs blog. And I care. And so do most fans. That’s why we’re here. Don’t pretend like that’s not the case. I understand your function is to Doom and gloom all the time and troll around. That’s fine. But at least post something that’s not ridiculous.
This kid looks pretty good on the tape. I know they all do. Decent size. And obviously good hands. We have needs beyond the receiver room, but purely as a player. I wouldn’t mind this guy.
April 12th, 2026 at 11:58 am
Finally, a receiver draft suggestion I can get on board with.
April 12th, 2026 at 11:58 am
Trolls may not care who’s drafted, but Buc fans do.
April 12th, 2026 at 12:02 pm
He definitely gives off shades of Mike. Particularly in the corner of the end zone.
His stats are pretty good, too.
Pass.
Our offense is solid. Maybe not elite, but very good as long as everyone stays healthy.
We have too many problem areas on defense.
April 12th, 2026 at 12:07 pm
Problem is, the Bucs will never be able to get him. He’s too rich for the #15 pick and will be long gone before the Bucs pick in the second.
Even if the Bucs trade down to the high twenties where Boston belongs, they need defense with (at least) the first three picks.
They can look at trying to replace the irreplaceable Evans in future drafts, assuming they eventually fix this god-awful defense.
April 12th, 2026 at 12:19 pm
Our offense is elite as long as we have all our offensive line starters. It falls off quickly after that.
April 12th, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Hurst, Stribling, Caldwell, Thomas are all later round picks who are big and fast who could help the team. Boston at 2 is too steep a price.
April 12th, 2026 at 1:00 pm
I’d imagine he’s taken at the end of the first
April 12th, 2026 at 1:18 pm
Thus far Jason & Todd have added 12 FAs from ‘outside’ plus re-signed our own Cade Otton, Ko Kieft & Dan Feeney this off-season. There’ll be several starters in that group, and they significantly improved our ‘talent level & depth’ IMO, BUT … we still need to hit on 3 or 4 in the upcoming draft to be truly competitive in the NFC. And virtually all of those are on DEFENSE.
Bucs NEED a beastly NT/DT to complement Vea, and it’d help if he was a nasty beast. Without that, we’re hurting when Vea is off the field (roughly one-third of the def plays). And IF we lose Vea to injury early in the season (like we did in 2020), we’d be toast (unless we had a beast like Suh to compensate for Vea’s loss). Not to mention that virtually all of our DLine will be FAs after this season. That IMO is our most pressing need.
Bucs also NEED a very talented ILB to start with Anzalone. I like Rozeboom to rotate in, but not as a starter. Luckily for us, 2026 has a number of very talented ILBs who’d work out well in Bowles’ scheme. But they’ll have to be Rnd 1 or Rnd 2 picks. Wouldn’t mind at all drafting a second ILB after we’ve filled our other needs.
And yes Bucs NEED a beastly EDGE/OLB, but after signing Muhammad I don’t see that as being such a pressing need as it was before we signed him. We’ve got 6 OLBs in the stable right now, and they MAY perform much better this season IF our DLine kicks a$$. I’d rather see what we’ve got in the barn FIRST before we go committing tens of millions of dollars to a high-priced FA.
More important than Edge to me, I think we NEED to add 2 CBs to that position group … 1 veteran & 1 rookie. Wouldn’t even mind using our Rnd 1 pick IF the guy we grab looks to be a sure-fire super-star with HOF chiseled into his forehead.
April 12th, 2026 at 1:36 pm
We don’t have nearly enough Washington huskies on our roster smh
April 12th, 2026 at 1:37 pm
Sadiq in the first round
and Boston in the second?
Smoking !