Regardless of being one of many hottest names out there on the free agent market, wideout Odell Beckham Jr. nonetheless has but to discover a new residence after sitting out the 2022 season.
Whereas many imagine Beckham stays unsigned as a result of he is requested $20M a season from potential suitors, on Saturday, the three-time Professional Bowler set the document straight on Twitter.
“I am simply so confused the place the quote is from me that stated I would like 20,” Beckham Tweeted. “All I am saying is 4 AIN’T sufficient.”
It is arduous to say which is extra surprising, that Beckham would demand $20M after lacking a full season or that one probably group supplied him solely $4M yearly.
Hypothesis over Beckham’s asking value goes again to the 2022 season, however Professional Soccer Speak’s Mike Florio reaffirmed the experiences final week, saying the wideout “nonetheless has that quantity in thoughts.”
Beckham hasn’t performed since tearing his ACL in Tremendous Bowl LVI whereas with the Los Angeles Rams. He flirted with a return throughout the 2022 marketing campaign, visiting a number of groups, together with the Buffalo Payments, Dallas Cowboys, and the New York Giants, with whom he started his profession in 2014. Nonetheless, Beckham in the end stayed a free agent all through the season.
Earlier this month, Beckham held a exercise in Arizona, wanting like his outdated self. Beckham was slicing on a dime, working fluid routes and rising to grab passes out of the air, exhibiting no ailing results from ACL surgical procedure a 12 months in the past.
Together with the Giants and Payments, the Rams, Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Cleveland Browns, and San Francisco 49ers had been in attendance, per CBS Sports activities Jonathan Jones.
Even with loads of groups, a signing would not really feel imminent. Nonetheless, a reunion with the Giants might be gaining extra steam. This week, Beckham advised Giants’ working again Saquon Barkley by way of Twitter to contact normal supervisor Joe Schoen, declaring that he had “extra s— left to do” in New York.
