MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins agreed to signal extensive receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a one-year contract, an individual with data of the deal instructed The Related Press on Friday.
The particular person spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the contract was not finalized.
NFL Community first reported the settlement, which is anticipated to be value as much as $8.25 million, the community reported.
Beckham, 31, will be a part of his fifth staff after beforehand taking part in for the Los Angeles Rams, Baltimore, Cleveland, and the New York Giants, who drafted him twelfth total in 2014. He received a Tremendous Bowl with the Rams through the 2021-22 season.
Beckham is becoming a member of a Dolphins group with final 12 months’s receiving yards chief Tyreek Hill and his speedy counterpart Jaylen Waddle. Hill and Waddle mixed for extra yards (2,813) than another extensive receiver duo within the NFL in 2023, however Miami had depth issues at extensive receiver past these two.
Beckham, who had 35 catches for 565 yards and three touchdowns with Baltimore final season, was lower by the Ravens in March. He visited the Dolphins earlier within the offseason and was made a suggestion, however the two sides hadn’t but come to an settlement.
“Issues went nice with him,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel stated in March. “We did make him a suggestion and enterprise takes time, particularly with gamers like Odell, who’s had an outstanding profession and nonetheless has actually good soccer in entrance of him and has choices. I’m positively prepared to educate him if we are able to come to an settlement, and I feel each side try to work in direction of that. We’ll see what occurs.”
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Beckham established himself as one of many league’s most proficient receivers in his first three seasons with the Giants. He had three straight 1,300-plus yard seasons after New York chosen him out of LSU and caught one of the vital memorable touchdowns in NFL historical past when he prolonged his physique, leaping backward and reaching so far as he may with one hand to haul in a 43-yard go from Eli Manning his rookie season.
Beckham was traded to the Browns in 2019 and spent two seasons there earlier than becoming a member of the Rams, the place he caught a landing go in Tremendous Bowl LVI earlier than happening with an ACL damage that sidelined him the whole 2022 season.
