The New York Giants are bringing back a franchise favourite.
Veteran receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is returning to the Meadowlands after visiting and working out with the team in April, the Giants announced Monday.
Beckham has played 10 NFL seasons with stops in Cleveland, Baltimore and Miami. He also won a Super Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021 after being released by the Browns and then picked up mid-season by the Rams that year.
He now returns to the Giants, the team with which he spent the first five seasons of his career, after being selected with the 12th-overall pick of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was traded to the Browns ahead of the 2019 season in exchange for first- and third-round picks in the 2019 draft, and safety Jabrill Peppers.
Beckham is the Giants’ second-leading all-time receiver with 5,476 yards. He burst onto the scene right away, getting selected to the Pro Bowl in his first three seasons, being named the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year in 2014 and was an All-Pro second-team selection in 2015 and 2016.
Beckham last played for the Dolphins in 2024, making 35 receptions for 565 yards and three touchdowns in nine games played.
The 33-year-old opted to sit out all of last season while serving a six-game suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. He also missed the 2022 season while rehabbing from a torn ACL suffered in the Super Bowl while with the Rams.
Over his 10 seasons in the league, OBJ has 575 receptions for 7,987 yards and 59 touchdowns in 119 regular-season games.
He joins after wideout Gunner Olszewski tore his right Achilles tendon in an off-season workout practice last week. There is also uncertainty at the position with Malik Nabers recovering from a torn ACL in his right knee, and no guarantee he will be ready to play by Week 1 in September.
In addition to Beckham, the Giants also reportedly added JuJu Smith-Schuster and Braxton Berrios to their wide receiver room.
The new receiving trio joins a Giants team that finished with just four wins last season, but enters 2026 with greater expectations behind second-year QB Jaxson Dart.
Smith-Schuster, 29, had 33 catches for 345 yards and a touchdown last season with Kansas City, starting 12 games and appearing in all 17 for the Chiefs.
Berrios, 30, is a return specialist whose addition is a direct reaction to Olszewski getting injured.
General manager Joe Schoen and new coach John Harbaugh have been adding receivers since free agency opened in May. The Giants signed Calvin Austin, Darnell Mooney and Ryan Miller and brought back Isaiah Hodgins after losing slot receiver Wan’Dale Robinson to Tennessee following his 1,000-yard season.
— With files from the Associated Press
