{"id":857931,"date":"2026-04-07T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:52:53","slug":"denzel-boston-commands-consideration-from-raiders-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857931\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Boston commands consideration from Raiders in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wide receiver is a big need in Las Vegas and Denzel Boston is too big of a prospect to escape the Raiders\u2019<\/a> line of vision should he be on the board when they select at No. 36 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Boston is the A-typical X wide receiver that the Raiders<\/a> need more of in 2026. At 6-foot-4, he is one of the top prospects at the position in this year\u2019s draft class. Which is just what the Raiders needs. And perhaps why they Las Vegas hosted Boston for a pre-draft visit<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n

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The 22-year-old recorded 881 yards and 11 touchdowns for Washington last season, averaging 14.2 yards per reception for the Huskies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s redeeming about Boston? He is skilled at going up vertically to bring down receptions. Boston also has the speed to get down the field to generate big plays. He does those two things very well.<\/p>\n

The Raiders are anticipated to take Indiana<\/a> quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick on draft day. Surrounding Mendoza with talent, whether or not he is named the Week 1 starter over Kirk Cousins, is of paramount importance for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

In the event wide receivers like Makai Lemon, Jordyn Tyson, Omar Cooper Jr. as well as Zachariah Branch all come off the board before they Raiders go up to select at No. 36 overall, Boston instantly becomes perhaps the best wide receiver for the Raiders to take, in the event that the front office opts to lead with an aggressive offensive approach in the draft.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Denzel Boston commands consideration from Raiders in 2026 NFL Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver is a big need in Las Vegas and Denzel Boston is too big of a prospect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32198,3619,7,7602,294,1744,34748,6,15,61529,525,5654,1473,33452],"class_list":{"0":"post-857931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-denzel-boston","9":"tag-fernando-mendoza","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jordyn-tyson","12":"tag-kirk-cousins","13":"tag-las-vegas","14":"tag-makai-lemon","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-draft","17":"tag-omar-cooper-jr","18":"tag-raiders","19":"tag-the-raiders","20":"tag-wide-receiver","21":"tag-zachariah-branch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116360932713446083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}