Odell Beckham Jr. making the Giants roster is a top cutdown day story 'NFL Daily'
Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue discuss Odell Beckham Jr. making the Giants' initial 53-man roster and explain why they feel this is the perfect football character arch for the wide receiver.
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Odell Beckham is on the New York Giants.
He's gonna be on the week one roster.
That means, like, he's making his salary.
It's not a, compared to the money he used to make, Jordan, it's not a ton of money, but it's guaranteed throughout the season.
It is, one of my favorite, like, cutdown day stories, that Odell Beckham is on the Giants' active roster heading into the season.
Yeah, and he actually, I mean, he had to sort of s- like, nerve this one out too.
Mm-hmm.
'Cause we weren't really sure if he was gonna make it or not.
And so obviously a very, very different circumstance than he was used to when he played, actually trying to figure out.
And then, and then the discussions about whether, you know, is he gonna contribute on special teams, and what, what kinds of things will he be asked to do for this football team.
You know, it's I think you love a story like this because it's just a testament to something that I think went really, really underrated and under talked about or under discussed about Odell when he was playing, is how much he loves football.
I mean, that was, I, I, I got to cover him, when he was trying to make, you know, help the Rams win a Super Bowl, and everyone said all these things before he came in, and there was all these headlines about him and all of these things.
But man, his teammates absolutely loved him, and that dude loves football.
And so I just, I just thought, you know, this is cool to see because go have fun out there, and go give it your best and see what you're gonna, see what's gonna happen, and let 'er rip.
All that needs to happen for me, and I'm sure he has different thoughts and the Giants have different thoughts, is just, like, one big Odell play to, whether it's a touchdown or a monster first down in a primetime game and the crowd is just going crazy.
Just, just that happening again is a really cool full circle story.
And to your point, yeah, we didn't know if he'd make it.
Calvin Austin is- Mm-hmm their slot receiver who is out for the season.
That might have had a knockdown effect.
Although right now Darius Slayton is still on the roster.
Darnell Mooney is still on the roster.
Mooney, I believe, will be staying there.
Braxton Berrios is not on the roster, but it's already been reported that it's a procedural move where they cut him and they're gonna bring him back before week one.
But they're doing the thing where, like, his contract won't be guaranteed, which is, like, shady business, NFL teams.
But Darius Slayton might be the guy who still gets traded.
I did notice, like, hashtag noticing, this doesn't really qualify, but that this is the longest between cutdown day and, and the start of the season, I believe ever.
And they did it because of the teams going to Australia and the g- and the season starting on Wednesday.
It's only by a couple days, but e- at this time of year you have an, an entire week for these teams now.
You have a couple extra days to possibly still be making trades.
So with all these announcements, it's all kinda written in pencil.
Like, Darius Slayton is on the team now.
If he lands on another team in, in a few days, that, that wouldn't shock me.
