Pittsburgh Native WR Would Love to Sign with Steelers originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Pittsburgh native and veteran free agent wide receiver Tyler Boyd played in Cincinnati for eight seasons, where he played his hometown Steelers twice per year.
He signed a one-year deal with the Tennessee Titans last season and saw his lowest production since 2017, his second year in the league. It was an anemic offense for the Titans, and Boyd didn’t register a touchdown catch for the first time in his career.
Now, without a team, he’d like to return home to Pittsburgh, which is just just 32 miles from his birthplace of Clairton.
“Absolutely,” Boyd told Pittsburgh Sports Now. “You know, all my family is here. I’d be able to have the majority of them be able to support me. I’m real cool with [coach Mike] Tomlin,” Boyd said. “He’s always been a good person. . . . When I was at Pitt, we had a good relationship. After practice, I’d walk over there, talk to [Antonio Brown] and those guys, talk to Tomlin, and he’d just pick at different things, where I could get better and get some guidance. I think we had a great friendship.”
Boyd wasn’t just born in the Pittsburgh area, he also attended college at Pitt.
And it might be a bit poetic for him to return to the area to potentially end his career – close to where it all started at Clairton High School.
While the Steelers could be in the market for a veteran wideout, general manager Omar Khan has been pretty coy about it.
There are options out there that might be better than Boyd, but Pittsburgh hasn’t flinched yet.
After acquiring D.K. Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks and then shipping George Pickens to Dallas via trade, the Steelers don’t have a ton of experience in the wideout room.
Boyd has 552 career catches to his name for 6,390 yards and 31 touchdowns. That seems like production the Steelers could use heading into 2025.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 30, 2025, where it first appeared.