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Odell Beckham Jr. won’t be making a Giants return, heads to Dolphins

Former New York Giants first-round pick Odell Beckham Jr. has found his home for the 2024 season. To no surprise, he will not be returning to the Meadowlands to reunite with the team that drafted him.

On Friday, it was announced that Beckham agreed to terms with the Miami Dolphins, joining one of the strongest receiving corps in the league on a one-year deal.

Beckham will likely be the third receiver in Mike McDaniel’s offense behind star Tyreek Hill and emerging star Jaylen Waddle. In a spot where Beckham will be facing most team’s third-best cornerbacks, he can fly under the radar and contribute to the Dolphins’ offense.

Beckham, 31, is on the back nine of his career and really hasn’t been the same since he left the Giants. The Dolphins will be his third team in the last four years and with it being a one-year deal, he could be on to another in 2025.

There was a thought that this would be the year that Beckham would return to the Giants to play alongside fellow LSU product Malik Nabers, but there didn’t seem to be much interest from either side.

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Aaron Ross says Odell Beckham Jr. should return to New York Giants

When former New York Giants first-round pick Odell Beckham Jr. was traded away back in 2018, there were mixed reactions from fans.

Given the fact that one of the picks the Giants received would land them Pro-Bowler Dexter Lawrence, it could be argued that New York ultimately won that trade.

Still, the Giants have been lacking a big-play threat at the wide receiver position since Beckham’s departure. Hopes are that’s changed after selecting fellow LSU wide receiver, Malik Nabers, in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft.

But could the Giants use more in the wide receiver room? With Sterling Shepard gone, would they be open to a reunion with OBJ?

One former Giant seems to think it would be a good fit.

“I think his personality matches the New York environment,” former Super Bowl champ Aaron Ross told TMZ Sports. “So I’d love to see that.”

“There’s a few pieces that we need to plug in that will fit the scheme that the offensive coordinator has.”

Beckham has not been the same receiver since departing from the Giants. After his time in Cleveland, he won a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams and after not playing in the entire 2022 season, Beckham returned and played last season with the Baltimore Ravens.

Anytime he is a free agent, there always seems to be ties between Beckham and a possible reunion with the team that drafted him. Only time will tell if Beckham will return to the Giants before he hangs up the cleats.

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14 free agents New York Giants could sign following 2024 NFL draft

The New York Giants made six selections in the 2024 NFL draft and have reportedly signed a handful of undrafted players in its aftermath. However, general manager Joe Schoen made it clear that personnel tinkering will continue over the next several months.

“We always have room to grow and always have room to improve. I say it all the time, we don’t play until September, so there’s still time between now and September where we can acquire players, the final cutdown, whatever it may be,” Schoen said.

With that in mind, here are 14 remaining free agents the Giants could potentially look into signing to help bolster their depth and fill out their roster.

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The Giants will add a low-end quarterback or two as they head into rookie minicamp and organized team activities (OTAs), but the likelihood they sign someone to compete with Daniel Jones and Drew Lock is slim. However, if that’s a path Schoen ultimately takes, Ryan Tannehill is the best available.

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The Giants failed to address the trenches during the three-day draft but there are still options in free agency. If they want to add an offensive tackle with experience, David Bakhtiari could be that guy.

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Perhaps more than a tackle, the Giants could use another guard with starting experience. Andrus Peat is a potential option and he provides the added versatility of being able to play tackle.

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Dalton Risner is a player many expected the Giants to pursue during the early stages of free agency. He remains available for the taking.

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If Calais Campbell opts to return to the field in 2024, the Giants could make a call. Although he’s nearing the age of 38, the veteran was still productive last season, recording 6.5 sacks for the Falcons.

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If the Giants want to add a true nose tackle to their roster, Bryan Mone could be an under-the-radar option. He missed last season due to a torn ACL but is still just 28 years old and would be a low-risk, high-reward type signing.

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Xavien Howard has informed teams he’s fully cleared to play (foot injury) and would be willing to take a reduced salary to play for a contender. While the Giants aren’t that, perhaps they could entice him some other way. Adding a four-time Pro Bowler at a position of need would be a plus.

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Stephon Gilmore is another option for the Giants, although he seems destined to return to the Panthers. However, if those talks fall through, Schoen might be willing to put in a call at least.

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The Giants seem done with Adoree’ Jackson but the free agent pool is a bit thin. If they don’t want to overspend, perhaps they can circle back to a familiar face at a lesser cost.

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After selecting Tyler Nubin in the draft, the Giants may very well be finished at the safety position. It’s also become obvious that Schoen doesn’t invest heavily there. But if they’re not comfortable and want a veteran with experience, Justin Simmons is still out there.

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The Giants have a solid base with Bobby Okereke and Micah McFadden, who broke out in 2023, but if they want to add another inside guy, Zach Cunningham remains available.

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It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which the Giants add another wide receiver to their crowded room but if they do, a low-cost veteran option might be — wait for it — Odell Beckham Jr..

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The Giants will go with a running back by committee in 2024 and may not be satisfied with the back-end of their depth at the position. Boston Scott is a long-time Giants killer and they’re very familiar with his game. He’s a solid rotational piece and plays special teams.

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If the Giants want to add another edge rusher — and they should — Bud Dupree is a familiar face to defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.

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All the wide receivers they’ve taken in Round 1

The New York Giants will likely be in prime position to select a top wide receiver in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday night in Detroit.

With the sixth overall pick, they will likely get a shot at one of this year’s three stud wideouts — Malik Nabers of LSU, Washington’s Rome Odunze, and Marvin Harrison Jr. of Ohio State.

In the Giants’ history, they have only used a first-round pick on a pure wide receiver six times. Here’s who they took with those picks (in no particular order).

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Ike Hilliard has the honor of being the only wide receiver the Giants chose in the top 10 of the draft. He was a steady performer for eight seasons with the Giants with 368 receptions for 4,630 yards and 27 touchdowns. He finished his career with four seasons in Tampa Bay and has been a receivers coach in both college and the NFL for the past 15 years.

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One of the most productive and colorful players in the history of the Giants, Odell Beckham Jr. put up massive numbers in his first three seasons in blue, earning Rookie of the Year honors in 2014 and getting named to the Pro Bowl in all three seasons. A knee injury slowed him down in his final two seasons with the Giants and they dealt him to Cleveland in 2019. Beckham earned a Super Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021.

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Kadarius Toney was a mercurial player and personality the Giants could not find a fit for, playing in just 12 games for Big Blue before being shipped out to Kansas City for a pair of draft choices. He has earned two Super Bowl rings as a member of the Chiefs.

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Thomas Lewis was a speedster out of Indiana the Giants hoped would give them a deep threat but he could not stay on the field, playing just 34 games with 15 starts over four seasons. His best year was 1996 when he had 53 receptions for 694 yards and four touchdowns.

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The Giants won the Super Bowl after the 1986 season and Mark Ingram was their first pick in the draft the next season. He played for Big Blue from 1987-1992 and was a member of the Super Bowl XXV team that upset the Buffalo Bills. In that game, Ingram made a crucial catch-and-run resulting in a first down that helped the Giants keep a key drive alive.

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Hakeem Nicks was a solid player for the Giants from 2009-2013 and then again in 2015 (he spent 2014 with Indianapolis). Nicks had two 1,000-yard seasons with Big Blue and was an integral part of the Giants’ Super Bowl XLVI championship team.

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Giants select receiver ‘eerily similar’ to OBJ in latest NFL.com mock

The NFL mock draft season is in full swing and many of the experts have the New York Giants focusing on bolstering their punchless offense.

In the latest mock from NFL.com, deputy editor Gennaro Filice sees the Giants augmenting their wide receiving corps by selecting LSU’s Malik Nabers with the No. 6 overall pick in this spring’s NFL draft.

Ten years ago, the Giants drafted a playmaking receiver out of LSU who checked in right around 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. Asking the eerily similar Nabers to replicate Odell Beckham Jr.’s spectacular burst onto the NFL scene (SEE: 1,300-plus yards and double-digit touchdowns in each of his first three seasons) is a tall order, but the 20-year-old would undoubtedly give Brian Daboll’s passing attack a necessary jolt of electricity.

Nabers is the latest in a long line of great receivers to come out of Baton Rouge. The Giants can only hope they are getting the next OBJ, Justin Jefferson or Ja’Marr Chase.

There still is the issue of who will be on the other end of the passes that will be intended for Nabers, however. Daniel Jones is still rehabbing his knee, Tyrod Taylor is headed for free agency and Tommy DeVito is, well, clearly backup material at the moment.

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Ex-Giant Odell Beckham Jr. has regrets over infamous boat photo

Former New York Giants star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has reached much fame and fortune in his 10-year NFL career.

He has had many highs, setting several league records making spectacular plays and even winning a Super Bowl ring while exhibiting flair, headlines, and eccentricity along the way.

Now a member of the AFC powerhouse Baltimore Ravens, the 31-year-old Beckham would like to have a do-over on some of those moments, however.

One such moment of note is the infamous ‘boat trip’ escapade the week before the Giants were to face the Green Bay Packers in the 2017 Wild Card round.

Beckham and his fellow Giants wide receivers (including Victor Cruz and Sterling Shepard) took a short vacation down to Florida and documented the trip with a sunny group portrait taken on a boat.

The Giants went on to get annihilated by the Packers in the Wild Card round, 38-13. Beckham was especially flat, catching four passes for a total of 28 yards.

“When the picture came out, the energy — I’m a huge energy person … everybody around me, even in my own self, I felt like we had lost,” Beckham said during an appearance on the Punch Line Podcast, hosted by his Ravens teammate Marlon Humphrey.

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“I had the best week in practice, I didn’t let it bother me, tried to dance it off … but deep down inside something had felt wrong. The attention had been shifted from the New York Giants versus the Green Bay Packers to this boat story.

“My biggest regret about all of that is that incident allowed that to happen. Not that I went and had a good time on New Year’s. It’s that I put myself in a situation where this story could be used to create a distraction from what’s really going on.”

The Giants didn’t hold the incident against Beckham as the next summer, he was inked to a five-year, $95 million contract extension with a total of $65 million in guarantees ($41 million fully guaranteed).

OBJ was subsequently traded to the Cleveland Browns in 2019 for a package of players and picks and has been a hired gun (between injuries) ever since, winning a Super Bowl with the Rams and is aiming for another with the Ravens.

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Odell Beckham Jr. responds after Jalin Hyatt switches to No. 13

New York Giants rookie wide receiver Jalin Hyatt is entering 2023 with high hopes and higher expectations. His speed has become legendary and the Giants are hoping Hyatt becomes the player they can rely on to take the top off defenses.

Hyatt himself is not short on confidence. On Wednesday, he changed his jersey number from 84 to 13 after teammate David Sills V was signed by the Denver Broncos to their practice squad.

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No. 13 may have been worn most recently by Sills but to Giants fans, it will always be remembered as the number of one Odell Beckham Jr.

And speaking of OBJ, he tweeted out a message to Hyatt after the jersey switch.

Hyatt said he had no problem wearing No. 84. He simply wanted a change.

“There’s no story behind it,” Hyatt told reporters. “I just want to start my own legacy with it and do my best for the Giants in number 13.”

“I was trying to decide which one I wanted. If I wanted to stick with 84 or try to do something different, but I decided 13. Most of the decision was mine. I asked some of my teammates what they thought, and they told me, ‘You should do it,’ so I decided to make that change. I can’t wait to go out there Week 1 with that jersey number and do what I do.”

Hyatt was asked if ever even met the man known worldwide as OBJ, the former Giants first-round pick who shattered many a record in Giant Blue.

“I met him down in AZ during the draft process. He was working out and we started talking. At first, I didn’t know — I was surprised he knew who I was. It shows a lot of love that he has for the Giants. A lot of respect for him,” Hyatt said.

Beckham is now with the Baltimore Ravens after sitting out the 2022 season rehabbing the torn ACL he suffered in Super Bowl LVI as a member of the Los Angeles Rams.

“What he did here — had a great career with the Giants and kind of took over,” Hyatt said of Beckham. “I was a fan when I was young watching him. High school, college, and now being here, but just with the jersey number, it’s just one of those things I wanted to start my own legacy. I like low numbers, and if I had to choose a number it’d be 11, but it’s retired here, so can’t go with that one, so 13 would be the next (best) option.”

The Giants are certainly hoping that No. 13 is a lucky number for them once again.



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Odell Beckham, Jets have ‘informal’ chat at NFL meetings

PHOENIX — The NFL meetings had a surprise guest Tuesday: free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. 

Beckham, who lives in Arizona, dropped into the Arizona Biltmore — where most of the NFL owners, general managers and coaches are this week — and chatted up several GMs and coaches, including Jets head coach Robert Saleh and GM Joe Douglas. 

A source said the meeting was “very informal” and they just chatted in a courtyard at the hotel.

Beckham also spent time talking to Rams GM Les Snead and Browns coach Kevin Stefanski.

CBS Sports reported that Beckham has had a formal meeting with the Ravens. 

The Jets have admitted they are interested in Beckham.

“I’ve had some productive conversations with Odell’s agent, Zeke Sandhu,” Douglas said Monday. “Odell is obviously a really talented player. He worked out for several teams a few weeks ago.

“We’ll see how that process plays out, but we have had conversations.”

Aaron Rodgers has said he would like to play with Beckham, and it is possible the two sides will end up making a deal at some point this offseason.


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Beckham’s price may have to come down, however, before the Jets can do a deal with him. 

Team owner Woody Johnson said the fact Beckham is even considering the Jets shows how improved they are as a team. 

“The fact that Odell Beckham, a man of his character and the quality and his ability, would consider us and want to be with us if that’s what he wants is pretty much a compliment,” Johnson said. 

Beckham was at the hotel for about an hour and was accompanied by his agent, Zeke Sandhu. 

Douglas said on Monday that there was nothing scheduled with Beckham so his drop-in to the Biltmore may have been unexpected.

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