It started this offseason. The talk of Tyler Boyd emerging as a reliable target in his third season was welcomed. Camp reports can be overly optimistic, but you could see and feel the difference in Boyd’s game, and the confidence Andy Dalton expressed only helped build the hype.



Boyd hasn’t let the Bengals down through three weeks as he’s enjoying the best stretch of his career. Even with the glowing offseason reports, to say I expected this type of performance would be a lie. It’s not because I didn’t believe what I was seeing, it’s because almost all hope was lost in Boyd at this point last season.



Boyd was arrested and was charged with possession of drugs after a traffic accident heading into his second NFL season (the charges were dropped in March 2018. The reports didn’t help in 2017 as he was deemed a healthy scratch for Week 2 against the Texans. He injured his knee and missed multiple weeks shortly after, then...