He's been in the NFL for four years now, last year being the shortest one of his career due to injuries. In the first three years of his career, he hauled in 1,305, 1,450 and 1,367 yards respectively. That goes along with 13, 12 and 10 touchdown seasons. Last year, was a short one for Beckham who was dealing with ankle and leg injuries all year. The numbers should be able to prove that, when he's healthy, he can be a dangerous threat. The numbers don't lie. He's coming off the leg injury last year and he enters this season in the final year of his contract. What he does on the field this year will go a long way to determine what he gets as far as a contract goes.
He's got two things against him right now, one physical and one mental. The physical aspect is pretty easy to figure out. How can his legs hold out during the course of a long season? If he can play a full year healthy and put up numbers close to what he did before his injury, then I see no problem with Odell getting a good deal. It's the mental aspect that has people worried, and for good reason. His antics during play with the kicking net and his touchdown celebrations have been well documented. Once he starts cutting out that stupid stuff and gets his head screwed on straight then I think that will take care of his problems and make his game just that much better.
He's got the numbers that can rank among the best in the game. He had better receiving yards over his first three years then Jerry Rice, almost similar to Randy Moss, better then Isaac Bruce. Which is pretty good company to keep. He got the talent level to make it with the greatest to ever play the game, which is still a long way away. He got the talent to be productive and under new GM Dave Gettleman and new Head coach Pat Shurmur, he can really take it to another level. More on them in a moment.
The argument can be made that he will be one of the top wage earners among wide outs in the league. Mike Evans is making $82 million over the next five years, Antonio Brown is entering the 2nd year of a four year deal with him making $68 Million. DeAndre Hopkins is in year two of a five year deal with $81 million. Larry Fitzgerald is coming into the last year of his seven year deal he signed in 2011 that was worth $110 million. All of them are great receivers who are making a lot of money. OBJ has the skillset to get there, if he can stay healthy. If he stays with the Giants its up to Gettleman and Shurmur.
The Giants new GM and coach will have to determine if he fits into their plans after this season, which I would assume yes, because of how good he is. New York would be so foolish to just let a guy of this talent walk away. One of two things is going to happen, if for some reason he isn't hanging around. He's either going to walk with the Giants, or they're going to trade him and get something in return, which I can't really see happening, but it is a possibility.
At the end of the day, I have this gut feeling that Beckham is going to stay here in New York by season's end and stick with the Giants. He's the best weapon this team has had at receiver since all time leader Amani Toomer retired in 2008. He has the chance to shatter the receiving records for this team and he has stated that he wants to stay put here in New York. He wants to be the highest paid player in the game, and I really don't think that's going to happen, not with his attitude. However I do feel he's going to get quite a nice chunk of change when he does hit the market. There's no real way I can see the Giants just up and letting him leave, they won't let their new face of the franchise go. In order for him to really get a max contract that he's going to be happy with, he's going to have to perform again on the field and have a sever attitude change in order to get the money he wants.
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