CLAIRTON, Pa. _ Tonya Payne, who retired from social work at the tender age of 42 last week to manage her son’s affairs, believes the plan for Tyler Boyd had been set long ago.
“I was thinking about this after he got drafted,” she says under a rare stretch of shade at Kennywood Park, where Greater Pittsburgh goes for amusement in the summer. “During his high school years somebody gave him a pair of Cincinnati Bengals gloves. They had the B in the middle.
“At the championship game he scored a touchdown and they were going to commercial and he held his hands above his head.