Denzel Boston-WR-Washington | Page 5

Phoenix49ers · 2025-12-28T12:16:32-08:00

Big bodied receiver with some small receiver traits. Plays like a traditional bigger receiver, great red zone weapon, strong hands, uses his body well to block out defenders like a center in basketball, great at high pointing the football but also a steadily improving route runner who excels against both man and zone coverage. Great awareness at finding empty spots in the zone and will quickly move towards the QB when they are scrambling. Like Jennings he's great at snatching passes up high and beating out DB's for the football. Not a speed demon, probably a 4.55-4.6 40 guy but he's a long strider with the ability to run right past CB's if they hesitate. I think he'd be a nice complement to a guy like Pearsall and a great weapon for Purdy, particularly in the red zone. He's also a very willing and determined blocker so that definitely helps him in this offense. I see him as a very high end #2 WR in the NFL, a guy who will be a major threat on 3rd downs and around the goal line because of his ability to block out and beat out DBs to the football. More aggressive than a Keon Coleman and a better separator than someone like N'Keal Harry. Denzel Boston is such a smooth route runner for a guy his size https://t.co/N0Sp6VqqaI pic.twitter.com/LAJpNoOrBI— NFL Draft Files (@NFL_DF) December 24, 2025Denzel Boston taking a punt for a TD. 6'4" 210 pound returners are cool pic.twitter.com/qlwNl1yZzB— Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) September 7, 2025Washington X-WR Denzel Boston (6-4 209) waited his turn behind Rome Odunze, Ja'Lynn Polk, Jalen McMillan, & Germie Bernard; all drafted in the first three rounds of the Draft🐺Strong hands pluck the ball out of the air (<5% drop rate)🐺High-pointer (54%+ contested catches)… https://t.co/jHEMN94mL1 pic.twitter.com/OIUaKUiL5V— Clint Goss (@NFLDraftDome) December 25, 2025Denzel Boston's 8?? TD receptions pace the @bigten 🙌 Watch each of the @UW_Football WR's scoring grabs 👇#B1GFootball x @dl_boston5 pic.twitter.com/qqggp2AjKM— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) October 8, 2024This is the first clip I watched of Denzel Boston.It's not a flashy catch–though he can.It's not crisp route running–once again, he can.It's a wide receiver sprinting into the box to plant a good block on the safety.Plays like that stand out.@dl_boston5 @UW_Football pic.twitter.com/V8QCWWAcmD— Newt Westen (@NFLDraft_Westen) May 28, 2025

Sep 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM

#61

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Originally posted by NYniner85:

Boston always felt like a hit but people couldn't get behind the testing numbers.

Film continually proved he could translate to the NFL. It's early but I'm not shocked at all https://t.co/ibghUrVHL2
— Sterling Bennett🔌💭 (@49ers_Access) September 21, 2026

Only a couple games, but he's got dogs**t throwing him the ball.

I thought he had a chance to be a good WR

watson had a quality game dropped a td in the bucket that boston couldn't quite hold on to he should have had it, rook looked good

Sep 21, 2026 at 12:04 PM

#62

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Originally posted by NYniner85:

Boston always felt like a hit but people couldn't get behind the testing numbers.

Film continually proved he could translate to the NFL. It's early but I'm not shocked at all https://t.co/ibghUrVHL2
— Sterling Bennett🔌💭 (@49ers_Access) September 21, 2026

Only a couple games, but he's got dogs**t throwing him the ball.

I thought he had a chance to be a good WR

I was big on Boston, but Stribling looks like he could be also be very good. It just blows that he got hurt.

Sep 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM

#63

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Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Boston always felt like a hit but people couldn't get behind the testing numbers.

Film continually proved he could translate to the NFL. It's early but I'm not shocked at all https://t.co/ibghUrVHL2
— Sterling Bennett🔌💭 (@49ers_Access) September 21, 2026

Only a couple games, but he's got dogs**t throwing him the ball.

I thought he had a chance to be a good WR

I was big on Boston, but Stribling looks like he could be also be very good. It just blows that he got hurt.

Stribling has more speed where Boston is more of a contested catch guy both are good but in our system I think we wanted a bit more speed

Sep 22, 2026 at 10:20 AM

#64

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Originally posted by ritz126:
Stribling has more speed where Boston is more of a contested catch guy both are good but in our system I think we wanted a bit more speed

I personally hate this mindset/draft philosophy.

Just draft good players. Focusing on specific attributes is how you end with a bunch of whiffs like the 49ers have in the last 5 years.

[ Edited by Heroism on Sep 22, 2026 at 10:21 AM ]

Sep 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM

#65

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Originally posted by Heroism:
Originally posted by ritz126:
Stribling has more speed where Boston is more of a contested catch guy both are good but in our system I think we wanted a bit more speed

I personally hate this mindset/draft philosophy.

Just draft good players. Focusing on specific attributes is how you end with a bunch of whiffs like the 49ers have in the last 5 years.

BINGO.

Oct 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM

#66

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Damn Boston learning from Evans woulda been amazing. Hopefully Strib will be even better

Oct 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM

#67

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I think it's already pretty obvious. Boston was NFL ready. Stribling may have been too but we won't know now until later. Sure hope we somehow still wound up with the better player but it's hard to watch Boston ball out every week in the meantime..

Oct 2, 2026 at 8:41 AM

#68

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KC or Boston would have been great picks imo.

hoping Strib comes back and shows why he should have been the pick over Boston.

Oct 2, 2026 at 9:30 AM

#69

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I would've gone Howell or Boston with the first pick. Boston is balling and Howell leads all rookies in pressures.

We just have to remain positive and wait and see. The pick feels so much worse right now because Strib is hurt. We'd be feeling a lot better if he was on the field doing the stuff he was doing in the preseason. Maybe they didn't draft the BPA, but I think Strib showed enough that they didn't miss the pick.

[ Edited by Heroism on Oct 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM ]

Oct 11, 2026 at 12:48 PM

#70

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It's starting to get annoying seeing this

OH MY GOODNESS DENZEL BOSTON!#CLEvsNYJ on CBS pic.twitter.com/sHe2ud1qdR
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) October 11, 2026

Oct 11, 2026 at 1:08 PM

#71

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Originally posted by Heroism:
It's starting to get annoying seeing this

[tweet https://x.com/Browns/status/2109369501338783801]

I mean... Yeah... Dude is a future star. He'd be doing amazing here, man.

Oct 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM

#72

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Seeing what Evans is doing against Seattle makes this sting even more. You need size and length to attack 1) Seattle over the middle on those layered throws 2) outside the numbers down the field. Boston was exactly what they needed on the outside.

MIKE. EVANS. AGAIN.@SFvsSEA on FOX/FOX One
Stream on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/7OlyUgWcEV
— NFL (@NFL) October 11, 2026

[ Edited by Heroism on Oct 11, 2026 at 6:17 PM ]

Oct 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM

#73

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Water under the bridge. Give it a rest.

Oct 11, 2026 at 7:25 PM

#74

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Originally posted by Heroism:
Seeing what Evans is doing against Seattle makes this sting even more. You need size and length to attack 1) Seattle over the middle on those layered throws 2) outside the numbers down the field. Boston was exactly what they needed on the outside.

MIKE. EVANS. AGAIN.@SFvsSEA on FOX/FOX One
Stream on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/7OlyUgWcEV
— NFL (@NFL) October 11, 2026

Numerous times, during my many pff mock drafts, I had us selecting Denzel with our 1st round pick. I was envisioning a twin tower offense these two would bring when playing together. And Boston would obviously be the heir apparent to Evans after he retired. I still have high hopes for Stribling. However, looking back at my draft, even though Boston was in my 1st round range, I would have picked Omar Cooper Jr. Jury remains on him, but I was thinking Deebo with better separation lol.

Oct 17, 2026 at 12:58 PM

#75

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Originally posted by Heroism:
It's starting to get annoying seeing this

OH MY GOODNESS DENZEL BOSTON!#CLEvsNYJ on CBS pic.twitter.com/sHe2ud1qdR
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) October 11, 2026

I thought Strib looked good in TC and Pre Season.