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8 Fantasy Football Winners From the 2016 NFL Draft
With the NFL Draft over, which players saw their situations get better for fantasy football purposes?

Tyler Boyd, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

It's a shame that the Bengals couldn't have selected a more dominant receiver physically because there's a lot of opportunity to be had in the Cincinnati passing attack.

Instead, they opted for Pitt's Tyler Boyd, who PlayerProfiler.com comps most favorably to James Jones. Meanwhile, the measurable comparables on MockDraftable.com for Boyd show a bunch of didn't-do-a-lot-at-the-NFL-level guys.

With Marvin Jones and Mohamed Sanu out of Cincy, though, there's a lot of volume to be had. The Bengals did sign veteran Brandon LaFell, but Jones and Sanu leave behind 152 targets, meaning Boyd has a shot to have an immediate impact in an offense that ranked sixth-best in the NFL last year, per our numbers.

Like Odell Beckham in New York, A.J. Green will demand a lot of looks in the Bengals' offense. But Boyd has arguably a better chance to capture a larger market share of the Bengals' offense compared to Sterling Shepard with his, which makes Boyd an intriguing player in 2016.

I just wish the Bengals had selected someone with better measurables.


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