As the trade deadline approaches, receiver-needy teams have an option in New Orleans.<\/p>\n
Rashid Shaheed is widely believed to be available.<\/p>\n
The current chatter is that the Saints are looking for a third-round pick for the 2022 undrafted free agent, who also can serve as a return specialist.<\/p>\n
Since becoming a full-time starter in 2024, Shaheed has been doing less returning \u2014 even though he was a Pro Bowler and first-team All-Pro in 2023.<\/p>\n
Through eight 2025 games, Shaheed has 39 catches for 431 yards and two touchdowns. His most productive season as a receiver came in 2023, with 46 catches for 719 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Injuries elsewhere could increase the willingness of other teams to meet the Saints\u2019 perceived price. Either way, the Saints can wait until Tuesday afternoon and take the best offer.<\/p>\n
Shaheed has a $4.25 million base salary in 2025. He\u2019s due to be a free agent in March. With nine weeks remaining after Sunday, a new team would owe him $2.125 million for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
The most immediate question is whether Shaheed will play on Sunday against the Rams. He\u2019s listed as questionable with a hip injury. It\u2019s believed that some teams will be keep some players out of action this weekend in order to ensure that they\u2019ll be as healthy as possible if\/when a trade happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the trade deadline approaches, receiver-needy teams have an option in New Orleans. Rashid Shaheed is widely believed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-265552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}