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How do Rashid Shaheed’s 2025 advanced stats compare to other wide receivers?
This section compares his advanced stats with players at the same position. The bar represents the player’s percentile rank. The longer the bar, the better it is for the player.
The bars represents the team’s percentile rank (based on QB Rating Against). The longer the bar, the better their pass defense is. The team and position group ratings only include players that are currently on the roster and not on injured reserve. The list of players in the table only includes defenders with at least 3 attempts against them.
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Overall QB Rating Against
75.1
Shaheed burst onto the scene in 2022 as an undrafted, 24-year-old rookie out of Weber State, with a slew of splash plays and impressive kick returns in the first half of the season eventually landing him a larger role in the Saints offense over the final six weeks. He caught 22 of 26 targets for 377 yards (14.5 YPT) and a TD in that six-week stretch, doing more than enough to enter 2023 as the No. 3 receiver behind Chris Olave and Michael Thomas. Unfortunately for fantasy managers, Shaheed’s role didn’t change much when Thomas went down with a season-ending ankle injury. He still played 50-75 percent of snaps most weeks, and was pure boom/bust with the five games in which he scored touchdowns also producing his five best yardage totals for the year. While there was inevitable regression from his near-impossible 2022 efficiency, Shaheed caught 61.3 percent of his targets for 15.3 yards per catch and a still-impressive 9.6 YPT. Less impressive was his target rate, with Shaheed’s 16.9 percent (75 targets on 444 routes) ranking 65th out of the 115 WRs with 200 or more routes. The Saints moved on from Thomas this offseason and didn’t have cap space for big free-agent additions, so there is some chance Shaheed takes another step forward in terms of target rate/share, even if the more likely outcome is that he remains a medium-volume deep threat whose strong work as a kick and punt returner makes him more valuable to the Saints than to fantasy teams.
Shaheed didn’t need long to prove that he should’ve been drafted last spring, though it’s understandable he wasn’t picked given that he played at FCS Weber State — the only school that offered him a football scholarship rather than one for track — and turned 24 shortly before Week 1 of his rookie year. He debuted Week 7, primarily functioning as a return man but also scoring a 44-yard rushing TD and 53-yard receiving TD within his first two games. It wasn’t until Week 11 that Shaheed played more than 15 offensive snaps; by Week 13 he had jumped into the starting lineup. Over his final five games, all starts, he averaged 4.0 catches for 64.8 yards and 0.2 TDs on 4.6 targets (20-324-1 on 23 looks). That efficiency lands on the extreme end of unsustainable, but it also gives Shaheed a case for more playing time this season, even in an offense that has 2022 first-round pick Chris Olave (who topped 1,000 yards as a rookie) and hopes to get 30-year-old Michael Thomas back from toe surgery. The Saints don’t have a target-hogging tight end and figure to get better QB play from free-agent acquisition Derek Carr than Andy Dalton provided last year, so Shaheed could put up decent numbers as the second or third receiver without repeating the absurd 2022 efficiency.