Rashid Shaheed

Rashid Shaheed enters the 2026 fantasy season with real upside and a clearer path to volume than he had a year ago. He’s back in Seattle on a three-year, $51 million deal, and the team has publicly talked up expanding his role after he flashed in the second half of 2025 and had a strong spring with Sam Darnold. That combination makes him one of the more interesting mid-round WR targets if you want speed, big-play ability, and some role growth in a new-look offense.

The biggest thing to watch is health, because Shaheed has been dealing with recent injury noise. He suffered a concussion late in the 2025 season, but he was cleared to play afterward, and more recently he also had a groin issue in preseason, with reports saying Seattle had no major concern for Week 1. For fantasy, that means the medical outlook does not look like a season-long red flag, but it is still worth monitoring his practice status early in the year.

From a fantasy profile standpoint, Shaheed still looks like a player whose ceiling is driven by efficiency rather than raw target volume. Seattle is expected to use him more underneath and in the intermediate areas, which is encouraging because it gives him a chance to produce even when the deep ball isn’t there. If that expanded route tree sticks, he can move from boom-or-bust specialist to a more stable weekly WR3/FLEX type.

The risk is that he still profiles as a secondary target in an offense with multiple ways to spread the ball around. That keeps his weekly floor a little shaky, especially in matchups where Seattle leans run-heavy or spreads touches to several receivers. In 2026 fantasy drafts, Shaheed makes sense as a strong upside pick in the middle rounds: not a safe bet, but a very appealing one if you want a receiver who can swing weeks with explosive plays and improved usage.