Week 4 AMA: Saints/Falcons Postgame (Ask Me Anything)

Whether or not that particular aspect becomes part of Shaheed's game is somewhat irrelevant
I don't agree with this, to be honest. The sample size needs to be larger, but he made some contested catches last year and the year before. In the Eagles game, yes, a dawg 50/50 ball guy gets that first underthrown ball to the end zone, but that was by no means an easy grab.

He had an fantastic one-handed catch in the end zone this week, just the ball was too high to get his feet down.

Whether or not that particular aspect becomes part of Shaheed's game is somewhat irrelevant--he brings more than enough in terms of deep ball and run after the catch ability to carve out an important role. But everyone writing off his ability to compete for the ball I think is operating off of recency bias.

Great pooint you make, "Whether or not that particular aspect becomes part of Shaheed's game is somewhat irrelevant--"
Can he be schemed where we arent throwing him contested balls? (considering were throwing at 48%, thats quite a few snaps that we wish we had back) Could it be that Klint is still learning Shaheed? or could Shaheed improve in that aspect? To me, It really seems we're trying to force a round peg at this point. (for the record i love Shaheed and we're beyond lucky to have him considering he's an UDFA etc)