unsettling in my soul<\/a>, in my spirit,\u2019\u2019 Beckham said, via Paul Schwartz of the New York Post. \u201cIt\u2019s not who I am. I\u2019ve never surrendered or quit or felt like I\u2019ve given up on myself or anything. It just wasn\u2019t sitting with me well.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\nBeckham expressed gratitude to co-owner John Mara and the organization for giving him another opportunity. Beckham has not played an NFL game since Dec. 8, 2024, with the Dolphins, as he sat out the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
He has played only 23 games over the past four seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis family brought me in; they gave me my first opportunity,\u201d Beckham said. \u201cSomething I\u2019ll forever be grateful for. So many amazing memories. My life was here. I never thought I\u2019d be anywhere else. To even have the opportunity to put a jersey and a helmet back on \u2013 I actually left one of my helmets here, it had dust on it. \u2014 it was good to see.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, I want to do it for that family, for this building, for Giants Nation. This is my squad. It\u2019s just going to come with everyday work, being the best me I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beckham is 33, hasn\u2019t made a Pro Bowl since 2016 and hasn\u2019t had a 1,000-yard season since 2019. This is likely his last chance, even if he\u2019s not looking at it like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look at it like this: God has given me one more opportunity to play,\u201d Beckham said. \u201cWhatever I do with that is that. I\u2019m not saying this is my only year and I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019ve got five more for you. I\u2019m just looking at it like this is my opportunity now. We\u2019ll see where it goes from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham spent his first five seasons with the Giants. He insists he never wanted to leave, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-683167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}