The question with a player like him is how easily you can get him the ball. Whatever else might be true about Shaheed, this is someone who can run with the football. He averaged 29.1 yards per return over 88 attempts, scoring seven touchdowns. What's definitely noticeable about Shaheed's collegiate production is the fact that he's one of the best kick returners in college football history. That 700 yards was a bigger contribution than it initially looks since it was 29.4 percent of Weber State's passing yardage in 2021, but it's still not enough to stand out at the age he was. His career high in receiving yardage was 700 yards in 11 games in 2021, a figure cheapened by the fact that he was 23 years old at the time – an age at which the vast majority of viable prospects have already been in the league, sometimes for two years. The main thing missing from Shaheed's collegiate production is volume. As much as we like to see plainly excellent production in prospects, sometimes circumstances get in the way and provide a legitimate excuse for any failure to do so. In particular, Shaheed had injury disruptions stall his progress at points where he otherwise was on track to approach that dominant standard we want to see in a small-school prospect.
Shaheed's collegiate production fails to meet that mark, but upon closer look there are positive indicators that go unnoticed at a glance.
Normally a player at the Weber State level needs to provide plainly dominant production to so much as blip the radar of the NFL, and that becomes even more the case when a prospect is over-aged, which Shaheed was as a 24-year-old rookie. To a lot of players Draft Capital is the almost sole measure of prospect value, and such people might be open to handing Shaheed over for cheap. Because Shaheed is undrafted and has a conventionally bad prospect profile, a lot of dynasty players with Shaheed shares might be looking to Sell High on him while following the conventional reasoning that his poor pedigree means he can't sustain his good 2022 production. If Shaheed does prove to be such an anomaly then he'll also potentially prove a profiting opportunity for dynasty owners who manage to acquire him on the cheap. Perhaps Shaheed would be an anomaly to succeed as an NFL starter with his prospect profile, but the 2022 season gives compelling reason to consider that possibility real anyway. Yet Shaheed's rookie season with the Saints was consistently impressive, and his production was strong to the point that it's time to largely rewrite his prospect profile. As a prospect in the 2022 class Shaheed's best selling point was his kick return production at Weber State.
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His prospect profile is full of details that would normally warrant red flags: old (24) for his class, ambiguous production at a low level of competition, and no workout testing metrics to measure his athleticism. He's not even your conventional fringe prospect. Rashid Shaheed is not your conventional NFL prospect.
This article is part of our Dynasty Watch series.
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