He could have had it all, a legendary career as a New York Giant, best receiver in the franchise’s history, and Odell Beckham Jr. dropped the ball.
It is still hard to fathom, such a wondrous young talent who seemed heaven-made for the bright lights and the big stage becoming such a headache and such a distraction that the New York Football Giants couldn’t wait to wash their hands of what had become in their eyes an ongoing soap opera.
The sight of Beckham wearing a 13 Cleveland Browns jersey on “Monday Night Football” against the Jets will undoubtedly be surreal as he returns to the scene of The Catch that changed his life, and seemed to change him as well.