The New Orleans Saints enter 2025 with significant questions surrounding their receiving corps, creating both opportunity and uncertainty for fantasy football managers. Under new head coach Kellen Moore’s offensive system, Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed present contrasting risk-reward profiles that could define sleeper strategies this season.
Chris Olave Fantasy Outlook
This is the perfect situation where we have to look at an obvious situation and see if this is where value is. Has Olave been fantastic yet? Good, but not great. Is he an injury risk? Yes. Is the Saints’ situation at QB terrible? Also yes.
We’ve seen crazier things work. New head coach and offensive mind Kellen Moore has to have some plan for this offense, even if they aren’t going to win many games this year. RB Alvin Kamara is still here, and the offensive line could be pretty good with all of their investments. A scenario where Olave has a breakout season as this team’s clear WR1 is far from impossible.Â
I’m buying Chris Olave everywhere in Dynasty…
Why?
Still 24 years old, Saints added zero target competition, and Kellen Moore schemes through slot at a high rate:
💥Clear cut #1 option
💥Priced outside the top 25 WRs
💥Paced 1,200+ yards in 2023/2024pic.twitter.com/OSnlmjkGyX— Snoog’s Fantasy HQ (@FFSnoog) May 9, 2025
Will I draft him anyway? No, probably not. Oddly enough, his value at WR34 is still a little too high, going around young players like Jordan Addison, Rome Odunze, and Jaylen Waddle in better situations. I can’t see a reason to go with Olave over those guys. Should he start to slip in your home drafts, he’s at least worth consideration.Â
– Mason LeBeau, Fantasy Football Analyst
Rashid Shaheed Fantasy Outlook
We’ll see what’s in store for Shaheed in this new-look Saints’ offense under head coach Kellen Moore, but he’ll be an excellent Best Ball pick, regardless. We now have to ponder if digging this deep will be worth it in redraft leagues. Most managers would probably say not. His current price, WR55, has him undrafted or just at the end of most leagues.Â
Coming off an injury-shortened year, Shaheed signed a one-year deal to come back to New Orleans for a chance at a bigger contract. He was on pace to shatter his previous season’s 719 yards and five touchdowns, which offers a surprisingly promising floor over a full season. His role as a true deep-threat tends to be boom-or-bust for fantasy, but in an ambiguous receiving room, there’s a chance Moore will look to utilize him more.Â
For my money, I’d gladly take Shaheed at his value over Chris Olave going a full five to six rounds earlier. That would be a bet on both Olave and this offense, which is not something I’m willing to do.
– Mason LeBeau, Fantasy Football Analyst
