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Wide Receiver

Denzel Boston

Grade89 /100
Pos Rank5
OVR Rank31
School
WASH

Experience

Played43
Started25

POSITION STATS LAST SEASON

Receiving
Catches62
YDS881
YPC14.2
TDs11
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Position-Specific Grades

COMBINE RESULTS

Height
6' 3 5/8"
Weight
212lbs
ARM
32"
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HAND
9 3/4"
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Vertical
35
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20 Shuttle
4.28sec

The Takeaway

The Player

Boston played in a limited role behind Rome Odunze, Ja’Lynn Polk, and Jalen McMillan his first two seasons before emerging as a high-producing star in 2024 and 2025. He’s not a burner, but he’s everything else you look for in a starting X wide receiver in the NFL. He’s big and strong with an outstanding combination of length, physicality, movement skills, route-running savvy, and hands.

Boston’s ball skills are elite. He excels on contested-catch opportunities (77 percent) and he secures the ball in traffic despite taking some vicious hits. He really shines in the red zone by using his height and strength to body and head-top defenders. He has such a good feel for working the boundaries and is so damn strong on contested catches. 

Boston does the little things really well. He works back to the QB on scramble drills effectively and understands how to identify coverages and choice routes. The biggest flaws on his tape are how he gears down before he breaks and his lack of acceleration out of cuts. He’s highly adept versus zone and will use his huge frame to generate late separation, but won’t generate man-to-man separation out of his breaks very often against NFL cornerbacks. 

He’s not a wiggle or speed guy but he shows good upfield transition quickness and sharp-cut ability to make the first defender miss after the catch. Combine that with his field vision and strength as a runner, and you’ve got a guy that will generate a good amount of YAC in the NFL. He’s shown lots of flashes of being a nasty blocker in the run game and screen game on his tape.

The Draft

There will be a minimum of five wide receivers taken in Round 1 and as many as seven. Boston is top-five at the position and he will likely be underdrafted due to his lack of ideal speed. He’ll be a treasure of a mid-to-late-first-round pick for a team with legitimate playoff aspirations.

The Projection

Boston is a day-one starting X wide receiver in the NFL. He has elite strength, physicality,  ball skills, and body control. His measurables and play style are similar to Denver’s Courtland Sutton and Indianapolis’s Michael Pittman Jr.