{"id":333376,"date":"2026-08-30T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333376\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:48:10","slug":"odell-beckham-jr-will-make-the-new-york-giants-53-man-roster-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333376\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham Jr. will make the New York Giants\u2019 53-man roster: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has made the New York Giants\u2019 53-man roster, according to league sources who were not permitted to speak publicly. Sunday\u2019s news cements a reunion with the franchise that drafted him over a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Beckham making the Giants felt far from assured. In fact, there was plenty of reason to think the 33-year-old receiver would not earn a spot on the opening roster, as he struggled to break through in training camp. However, roster calculations changed after Calvin Austin III tore his ACL<\/a>. The slot receiver had been a featured player throughout the summer and was expected to be a roster lock.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Beckham \u2014 who signed a one-year deal with the Giants in June to help add depth as Malik Nabers and Darius Slayton recovered from injuries \u2014 timed his resurgence well, with two strong practices and a solid preseason finale on the cusp of the Austin injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Odell\u2019s had a good camp,\u201d Harbaugh said Wednesday. \u201cI would say his best week of camp has come this week. He\u2019s looked good and made numerous plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

That trend continued Friday, with Beckham making three catches for 53 yards against the Jets on Friday night, prompting Harbaugh to say that while he didn\u2019t want to guarantee anything, Beckham had shown enough to make the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he has done enough to make an NFL roster, for sure,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cHe\u2019s played well, and he\u2019s gotten better as his camp\u2019s gone along. He deserves credit for that. He\u2019s done a really good job with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beckham started to look a little more like his old self this past week, including a particularly special one-handed grab<\/a> that evoked memories of the Beckham the Giants selected with the 12th pick in the 2014 draft. That player emerged as one of the league\u2019s best playmakers, collecting 91 passes for 1,305 yards and 12 touchdowns to earn NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors. Beckham made three Pro Bowls and two All-Pro teams during his five-year stint in New York before he was traded to the Cleveland Browns following the 2018 season.<\/p>\n

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Since then, Beckham\u2019s had his ups and downs, best encapsulated by winning a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021, where he tore his ACL for a second time during the second half of the big game. After missing the 2022 season, Beckham joined Harbaugh with the Baltimore Ravens for the 2023 season. He then played nine games for the Dolphins in 2024 but remained unsigned last season as he served a six-game suspension for violating the NFL\u2019s policy on performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n

Before signing with the Giants in June, Beckham worked out for New York and underwent a physical in the week leading up to the NFL Draft, but no move was made. In his post-draft press conference, coach John Harbaugh said Beckham \u201clooked good\u201d and that the two sides would continue to remain in touch.<\/p>\n

What followed was an understanding of what would be required of the veteran and that there would be no guarantees.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has always been about proving it to myself,\u201d Beckham said in June. \u201cThere\u2019s always a little bit of you want to prove it to everybody else. Deep down inside to me, it was about proving to me, believing in me, believing in what God had given me and my abilities. I like it this way. I feel like it\u2019s going to elevate me, it\u2019s going to bring me up to have to earn it.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach (Harbaugh) and I talked about that. I think that was one of his fears. He was like, \u2018I love you so much; I\u2019ve got so much respect for you. I don\u2019t want to bring you here and have to cut you. I\u2019m like, \u2018Listen, I\u2019m going out on my sword either way it goes. If that\u2019s what you\u2019ve got to do, you see I\u2019m not best or fit, then by all means I\u2019m good with it; I can live with it. I can\u2019t live with sitting at home not doing it, you know? I just couldn\u2019t do it. Like I said, it\u2019s not who I am, so \u2026 I\u2019m just here to enjoy the moment, work hard, we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happened is Beckham is back playing in front of the fan base that loved him so much a decade ago and hasn\u2019t stopped. He was a fan favorite and garnered some of the loudest cheers in the limited practices open to fans this camp down in West Virginia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have so much love for this organization, this city,\u201d Beckham said in June. \u201cI\u2019ve got New York tatted on my back; you know what I mean? And I\u2019m from New Orleans. So, all I ever wanted to do was win a championship for the New York Giants and just having an opportunity right now to \u2014 the end goal in mind, but stack those days, that\u2019s all I want to do for this city, this organization, is bring one home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has made the New York Giants\u2019 53-man roster, according to league sources who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,2683,11,10,22],"class_list":["post-333376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333376","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=333376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}