{"id":250878,"date":"2026-06-01T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250878\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:47:14","slug":"odell-beckham-jr-never-wanted-to-leave-new-york-hoping-for-the-best-in-a-potential-giants-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250878\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham Jr. ‘never wanted to leave’ New York, ‘hoping for the best’ in a potential Giants reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants have a renewed need at receiver following Gunner Olszewski<\/a>‘s recent torn Achilles tendon. All eyes turn to Odell Beckham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Giants star attended Brian Burns<\/a>‘ charity softball game over the weekend, signing autographs for fans and speaking to the New York Post’s Brandon London<\/a> about the possibility of returning to his first NFL club.<\/p>\n

“It’s a place I never wanted to leave,” Beckham said, “and it’s just a special place in my heart, just to see all of these Big Blue jerseys — just hoping for the best.”<\/p>\n

Beckham worked out<\/a> for the Giants earlier this offseason, and new coach John Harbaugh didn’t dismiss the idea of adding the veteran receiver, but noted it needed to be right<\/a> for “both parties.”<\/p>\n

The Giants are set to hold a WR workout on Monday, and Beckham is expected<\/a> to be one of those in attendance. The others include Braxton Berrios<\/a>, Anthony Miller<\/a> and JuJu Smith-Schuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old receiver didn’t play at all in 2025 after receiving a six-game PED ban. Beckham said the time away has made him appreciate the game more.<\/p>\n

“I think you just rely on the things you always rely on, which is my faith,” Beckham said. “And, you know, God has a place of special purpose and journey for me, and just being able to spend that time away, just made me realize some things. You know, I left some things unfinished.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have a renewed need at receiver following Gunner Olszewski‘s recent torn Achilles tendon. All…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8451,9,2683,11,10,12,6676,84469,67385],"class_list":["post-250878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-odell-beckham","tag-offseason-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}