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Welcome to the NFL, Rashid Shaheed. The former Weber State wide receiver caught the New Orleans Saints’ attention on kick returns at the college level, but they put some of those skills to good use in Sunday’s game with the Cincinnati Bengals. The Saints dialed up a jet sweep for Shaheed flowing to the right side, and all it took was a missed tackle by Eli Apple for him to fly 44 yards downfield for a score; NFL Next Gen Stats tracking found that Shaheed hit 19.5 miles per hour on the carry.
It’s wildly impressive to see out of the undrafted rookie. Shaheed missed most of the summer recovering from an ACL injury, and this was his first touch in the game (he previously beat Apple on a vertical route, breaking to the inside, but quarterback Andy Dalton threw outside for an incomplete pass). Hopefully he can generate more big plays like this with so many injuries piling up at the position for New Orleans.
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