Chris Olave is seeing lots of targets; will production follow? Lessons learned from Week 2

The New Orleans Saints and quarterback Spencer Rattler have made it a priority to send a steady stream of footballs Chris Olave’s way.

For the second straight game, Olave led the Saints in targets, and through two weeks, only Malik Nabers (25) and CeeDee Lamb (24) have been targeted more than Olave (23). The usage rate is encouraging, but through the admittedly small two week sample size it hasn’t yet manifested in big production.

Olave is tracking toward career lows in several statistical categories, including catch rate (56.5 %), air yards per target (9.8) and yards per route run (1.4), according to Next Gen Stats.

Rattler and Olave have connected on a few important plays — one of the biggest being a nice leaping catch for 14 yards on a third and 3 in the red zone last week. Four