That Olave was ruled out just a handful of days after sustaining a concussion in Week 6 on Sunday isn’t news to anybody – the league’s concussion protocol doesn’t allow players to return from the injury that fast often, if ever. That being said, his absence was supposed to open things up for WR Rashid Shaheed, who is also now out for tonight’s game vs the Broncos with a knee injury. The current understanding is that it’s a knee injury for Shaheed – specifically the meniscus – and that any complete reconstruction surgery has the potential to end Shaheed’s season today. There’s also a possibility that Shaheed could only need a trim to his meniscus, which would likely put him on a roughly 4-week recovery timeline. Either way, it seems like things have gone from 0 to 100 with the injury, and a stint on IR (either short-term or season-ending) seems to be in the cards. With the Saints already starting Spencer Rattler in place of the injured Derek Carr, there’s not a whole lot to be excited about with the Saints' offense for tonight’s game against the Broncos besides Alvin Kamara. Bub Means, the rookie WR who came on in place of Chris Olave last week, is a desperate flex/low-WR3 play with Pat Surtain also out with a concussion of his own.
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