Rashid Shaheed didn’t play top-level college football.

He didn’t get drafted into the NFL out of Weber State of the Big Sky Conference. “I knew I was going to get an opportunity, at some point,” he said. “I just didn’t know where.

“I just knew I had to be ready for the opportunity.”

The New Orleans Saints gave him one, in the spring of 2022. Shaheed scrapped his way onto the Saints’ roster that summer. In his first two seasons in the league, he went from rookie free agent to unlikely All-Pro wide receiver and kick returner.

Now the lightning bolt who can change preconceptions and games has become something he’d never before been in the NFL.

Sought.

On Tuesday, the Seahawks traded two draft choices to the Saints to get the 27-year-old Shaheed. On Wednesday, he arrived at Seattle’s tea

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