No surprise here, but Odell Beckham Jr. asked to be traded multiple times, according to a source who spoke with Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. One of those requests came this past offseason, as the wide receiver was rehabbing from an ACL tear.
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Beckham also asked the Browns to trade him after their 15-10 loss to the Steelers on Halloween, when he finished with one catch for six yards. The Browns listened on offers between then and the Nov. 2 deadline, but couldn’t find a suitable deal. Now, after revising his contract to shift a portion of his base salary into bonuses, he’s headed for the waiver wire.
The Steelers game was the straw that broke the camel’s back, according to Cabot’s source. The Browns mostly used Beckham as a decoy while the offense sputtered, and OBJ told the Browns that he had enough. Cabot hears that the relationship could have been salvaged, had Beckham been more involved in Week 8. However, based on what we’ve been hearing, it sounds like he still would have had a number of fences to mend, including a fractured relationship with quarterback Baker Mayfield.
4 consecutive OBJ articles? Did he just make a financial investment in PFR?
And yet another team will say: That poor misguided child has a place in our organization! I fully embrace opportunity but what you have here is habitual behavior.
Why have him on your team if you aren’t going to throw him the ball?
He’s had more targets than anyone on the team and he’s missed 2 games
He also had the most throws that are uncatchable per the NFL stats.
Several articles outlined how he was never where he was supposed to be when running routes which would explain why he’s never seen and why Baker’s play is so much better without him. Perhaps with a guy the Rodgers who has been around longer this would work.
Exactly and when he is where he should be he drops the ball.