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Jordan RaananESPN Staff Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants are astatine the precise slightest unfastened to perchance reuniting with wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
Beckham popped into the Giants installation past period and met with immoderate players (including adjacent friends Sterling Shepard and Saquon Barkley) and unit that helium knew from his erstwhile clip with the enactment (2014-18). He didn't conscionable with the wide manager and manager and truthful it wasn't an authoritative visit.
This doesn't needfully mean the Giants wouldn't person involvement successful signing Beckham erstwhile helium gets steadfast oregon for adjacent season. Beckham is recovering from a torn ACL suffered successful Super Bowl LVI.
"I had nary thought helium was successful the gathering until helium was retired of the building," wide manager Joe Schoen said connected Tuesday aft the receiver-needy Giants did not marque a determination astatine the commercialized deadline. "Obviously he's been a bully player. He's a feline we would see and speech to, erstwhile he's healthy. I deliberation helium did the ACL successful February, truthful not definite truly wherever helium is physically.
"But yeah, immoderate subordinate that would upgrade the roster we're going to see and person conversations with their representatives."
The Giants are presently 6-2 heading into their bye week.
Beckham, 29, was drafted by the Giants successful the archetypal circular of the 2014 NFL draught retired of LSU. He had a record-breaking commencement with 3 consecutive 1,300-yard seasons to statesman his career. But things began to autumn isolated erstwhile helium broke his limb successful 2017.
The enigmatic receiver was traded to the Cleveland Browns earlier the 2019 season, months aft signing a caller semipermanent deal. But his choler astatine the clip was directed mostly toward wide manager Dave Gettleman, who is nary longer with the franchise.
Beckham has toyed publically connected societal media with the thought of a reuniting with the Giants.
"Ain't thing amended than a household reunion!!" helium tweeted past month arsenic a effect to Barkley.
Wide receiver conscionable truthful happens to beryllium a presumption the Giants could usage reinforcements. Shepard is retired for the season, Kenny Golladay has 2 catches for 22 yards and has missed the past 4 games and the oft-injured Kadarius Toney was traded to the Chiefs past week. Darius Slayton presently leads the Giants with 232 receiving yards done 8 games.
Schoen said Tuesday he's hoping the Giants get Golladay backmost to look the Houston Texans aft their bye week. He has his "fingers crossed."
Beckham showed past play with the Los Angeles Rams that helium was inactive a high-end player, erstwhile healthy. He had 21 catches for 288 yards successful the Rams' playoff tally and seemed destined to perchance beryllium named the Super Bowl MVP earlier suffering his latest injury.
That has been the occupation successful caller years for Beckham. He needed halfway musculus country pursuing the 2019 season, tore his near ACL successful 2020 and did it again earlier this year.
Beckham is inactive rehabbing the injury, but a bigger impediment to the Giants adding him this play could beryllium money. The Giants are choky against the wage headdress and person been adamant astir lone doing seasoned wage payment (VSB) deals this season.
Beckham would apt beryllium looking for the benignant of incentive-based woody that can't beryllium done successful VSBs. The Giants would person to marque an exception.
"He's a bully subordinate from what I evaluated, if he's healthy," Schoen said. "If a subordinate is steadfast and they would assistance america triumph shot games, we volition prosecute them if they acceptable what we're looking for."
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