{"id":172247,"date":"2024-05-02T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=172247"},"modified":"2024-05-02T06:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T10:22:49","slug":"potential-pittsburgh-steelers-target-tyler-boyd-meets-with-other-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/05\/02\/potential-pittsburgh-steelers-target-tyler-boyd-meets-with-other-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Pittsburgh Steelers Free Agent Target Meets With Other Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers have a few <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/04\/29\/pittsburgh-steelers-biggest-needs-post-2024-nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">remaining holes<\/a> to address on their roster following their strong performance in the 2024 NFL Draft. Despite drafting Roman Wilson out of Michigan in the third round, the Steelers could sign a free-agent wide receiver to complete their receiver room. Currently, there is not much talent behind George Pickens and Wilson in the position.<\/p>\n<p>One free-agent wide receiver who has been linked to the Steelers this offseason is Tyler Boyd. Pittsburgh reportedly tried negotiating a deal with Boyd, but the two sides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/steelers\/pittsburgh-steelers-tyler-boyd-finally-over\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could not come<\/a> to a contract agreement. With Boyd still on the market, the Steelers should still be doing their due diligence. However, ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler reported Boyd visited with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/chargers\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> and is expected to meet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/titans\" target=\"_self\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent wide receiver Tyler Boyd was in Los Angeles this week to meet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chargers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Chargers<\/a> and will also head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Titans<\/a> later this week, per source, <\/p>\n<p>Market should heat up for Boyd, who has 513 catches for 6,000 yards over eight seasons in Cincinnati. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bMUcM89KK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7bMUcM89KK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/1785775137704304938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Potential Steelers Target Tyler Boyd Meets With Other Teams<\/h2>\n<p>After drafting Wilson, the Steelers may no longer be interested in Boyd&#8217;s services. While he can play outside, Wilson is most likely going to get most of his playing time in the slot. Boyd is predominantly a slot wide receiver, so he or Wilson would need to play out of position to coexist. Pittsburgh seems more interested in acquiring an outside wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>However, given the lack of talent in their wide receiver room, the Steelers shouldn&#8217;t completely rule out Boyd as a free-agent target. Even if Boyd or Wilson had to play out of their preferred position, they would still likely be more productive than any non-Pickens wide receiver currently on the team. For example, either Roman Wilson or Tyler Boyd outside and the other in the slot is a better duo than one of them in the slot and Van Jefferson is the number two target on the outside. However, it seems to be a moot point, as Boyd is meeting with other teams and never advanced very far in contract talks with the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers previously tried signing Tyler Boyd, who is still a free agent and is now meeting with other teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2781,"featured_media":172279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[32265,586],"class_list":["post-172247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-steelers","tag-2024-nfl-free-agency","tag-tyler-boyd"],"modified_by":"Will Koshover, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}