Rashid Shaheed

After tendering exclusive rights free agent Rashid Shaheed, the Saints have agreed to extend the first-team All-Pro for an additional season, per Adam Schefter of ESPN. They settled his 2024 contract with the tender in March and, apparently, decided to deal with his situation for 2025 this offseason, as well. The tender offer from New […]

The New Orleans Saints and exclusive rights free agent wide receiver Rashid Shaheed who was an All-Pro and a Pro-Bowl selection last season, reached agreement on a one-year, $5.2 million contract extension, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Saturday.

The deal places Shaheed under team control through the 2025 season after he was tendered as an exclusive rights free agent prior to the 2024 season. Shaheed entered the league as an undrafted free agent in 2022 and played his way into a more robust role in his second professional season in 2023, earning All-Pro and Pro Bowl selections in the process. With Michael Thomas no longer with the team and a relative lack of depth behind Chris Olave at wide receiver, Shaheed should have every opportunity to improve upon a diminutive 46.0 percent snap share and 77.9 percent route participation rate from a season ago.

The Saints are keeping one of their key contributors around for at least another season.