Odell Beckham Jr. did not finish the 2024 season as a member of the Dolphins, being waived during that campaign. No team signed the former Pro Bowler in 2025 — his second year out of football this decade.
Establishing himself as a star during the 2010s as a Giant, Beckham met with John Harbaugh at last month’s league meetings. Harbaugh coached Beckham with the Ravens in 2023 (but did not re-sign him for the ’24 season). The prospect of a second NFL comeback gained steam Monday, with the New York Post’s Ryan Dunleavy reporting OBJ is at the Giants’ facility taking a physical.
This is being described as a Beckham workout for the Giants, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo add. Although this would certainly be a fascinating reunion, SNY’s Connor Hughes indicates no deal is imminent. Though, Hughes adds OBJ moved well and looked good at this audition.
Beckham, who played in last month’s flag football showcase as a reintroduction of sorts for evaluators, played with the Giants from 2014-18. All three of his Pro Bowl nods came in New York, but the team dealt him to Cleveland in 2019 in a haul that included the No. 17 overall pick. The Giants parted ways with the player obtained with that selection — Dexter Lawrence — over the weekend.
While Beckham played Hall of Fame potential during his five-year stint as a Giant, injuries slowed him considerably after his Big Apple exit. He has sustained two ACL tears, the second of which coming in Super Bowl LVI, and missed a chunk of the Dolphins’ 2024 season after more knee trouble intervened. Added on a one-year, $3MM deal to be a high-profile WR3 alongside Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, Beckham caught just nine passes for 55 yards before being cut in early December that year.
With Harbaugh now leading the Giants, Beckham’s 2023 season in Baltimore becomes more relevant. He was far more productive as a Raven, hauling in 35 passes for 565 yards and three touchdowns in 14 games. This worked out to a career-high 16.1 yards per catch. Until Zay Flowers is extended, Beckham’s $15MM guarantee at signing remains the most money the franchise has guaranteed a veteran wideout. The Ravens’ Beckham decision nixed a potential Courtland Sutton trade in 2023, providing a seminal development for a trade-rumor mainstay (who has enjoyed a strong Broncos second act since), and the team let him walk in 2024.
Considering the injury trouble Beckham has encountered, he is unlikely to reach the $3MM number he played for in Miami. The Giants already added low-cost wideouts in Darnell Mooney and Calvin Austin, and with the team obtaining the Bengals’ No. 10 overall pick for Lawrence, the prospect of a first-round wide receiver looms as Malik Nabers rehabs an ACL tear. It would stand to reason the Giants wait on Beckham until after the draft. If Beckham is open to other destinations, waiting to see how WR rooms look post-draft would be logical for the free agent as well.
Must really need the fookin’ money.
He discovered you can’t retire comfortably on a flag football salary 🙂
He already said he couldn’t live off of 60 million comfortably.
Why not see what he still gots? If nothing else it gets a few giants fans excited and more butts in seats. He’s a legend in NY
Diva WR with surgically repaired Achilles.
The only people who’d get excited would be Cris Collinsworth, Al Michaels, and the living-on-fumes NYC tabloids.
Chucky, be real. You’d be chubbed up reading those NYC tabloids if the Giants signed OBJ.
Each NY-area tabloid costs $40 per month just for an online-only edition. None of them provide value for money.
lol what newspaper costs $40 a month for a digital subscription?
The Daily Chucky
@SentinelATL: I agree totally. Lots of Giants fans dislike OBJ, but I don’t see what’s wrong with kicking the tires. You’re not signing him to be WR1 or WR2, or even WR3. It’s a pure depth move on a veteran WR who can maybe help a young QB and offense. If he’s got nothing? No big deal, move on.
And coach up that young WR room too. And yes I’m not saying he’s Puka I’m saying he has loads of experience and is a decent WR3. Not to mention just a couple years ago with Baltimore he was making plays
OBJ is the last guy I’d want coaching up a WR room. All about himself and wasted what talent he did have…
The Giants thought Sterling Shepard was finished. He’s thriving in Tampa where people appreciate real football.
I don’t want any part of this guy. He was an absolute headache when he was at the peak of his career, he’s not worth the attention and nonsense as a depth piece. You can tolerate that stuff when he’s a superstar. Not when he has 40 something catches in the past 3 years. He’s not going to help a young QB by whining when he doesn’t get targeted. He can’t help on special teams and after a year off and multiple serious injuries he’s likely to get hurt again. Hard pass for me.
I don’t know if you’re from the NY area, but you don’t seem to have a feel for what the fans here think.
Chucky bases all of his opinions on what WFAN callers think.
Don’t put words in my mouth, rct! Talk radio is for people who want to be told how to think.
Maybe the Giants think it qualifies as one of their 30 college visits? OBJ isn’t so bad for a college guy…
That NIL money is making these college players older and older every year…
Thought the point of hiring Harbaugh was to fix the culture there…?
No mention of Beckham’s 6 game suspension for using PEDs?
With the 5th & 10th overall picks, I’d rather see the Giants go two offense (RB Love and a WR) or two defense (preferably, if they can get the star S and Styles—overnight, what a defense!).