The WR award issue and decision are over and in the past. For at least a few weeks, hopefully, we can concentrate on discussing rising JR WR Tyler Boyd’s skills, career production and his worth to the team in the coming season in advance of the real life football things that start happening in the fall camp.
We all agree that Boyd’s true freshman year was an excellent outing for him and contributed greatly to Pitt’s seven wins He made his name nationally known by his strong production and his acrobatic and sometimes just plain amazing catches. In the table below are the results of his first year when he was a true freshman in ’13 along with his second season in ’14.
| SEASON | QB | REC | YDS | AVG | LNG | ATT | YDS | AVG | YPG | TD |
| 2014 | Savage | 78 | 1261 | 16.2 | 53 | 12 | 63 | 5.3 | 97.0 | 8 |
| 2013 | Voytik | 85 | 1174 | 13.8 | 69 | 11 | 108 | 9.8 | 90.3 | 7 |
In ’14 his scoring as a receiver was rather small potatoes at eight TDs when compared to our running game’s 35 TDs. Of course it is expected that a team’s rushing will produce more TDs but when we take into account Boyd’s skills and catching ability we expected to see much more contribution in that area.
Those eight receiving scores put him in the 38th spot nationally in TDs and was 32nd in receptions per game. Both sort of surprising given the talent and his yardage production.
