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November 21, 2021

Odell Beckham

Will Rams help Beckham return to elite receiver status?

Can Odell Beckham get back to being an elite, top-level receiver? He got off to an ominous start on Monday night, catching 2 passes for 18 yards, with a forced long ball on the first possession resulting in a tone-setting interception.

Beckham had limited practice reps, of course, and he didn’t even play all that much – just 15 plays. On this front, the Rams get their bye week at the perfect time. It will give him an extra week to study the playbook and get some practice reps with Matthew Stafford. Not that they’ll have everything worked out; it takes months or even years to really build a top-level rapport. Consider Antonio Brown, who’s averaging 2 more yards per pass target this year, now that he’s had some time to work with Tom Brady.

I don’t think it’s realistic to expect Beckham to do all of the good things they were getting out of Robert Woods. Woods has been in the Sean McVay offense since the beginning, and he’s a tough, trusty pro.

They might, however, get more big plays out Beckham. He’s a little faster and more athletic than Woods.

That’s the theory, anyway. Beckham hasn’t actually shown much on the field in recent years. They could never get him going in Cleveland, where he suffered a torn ACL and at times didn’t want to work out with the team in the offseason.

In this last 16 full games in Cleveland (and old season’s worth of action) Beckham caught 57 passes for 781 yards and 5 TDs.

In his last 16 games with the Giants (in the 2017-18 seasons) he caught 102 passes for 1,354 yards and 9 TDs.

The buzz with Beckham comes from what he did in his first two seasons, when he looked like he was going to be one of the league’s great receivers – a Randy Moss kind of guy. He had the unbelievable touchdown catch against the Cowboys, where he seemingly caught the ball with 2 fingers. If you look at the 20 games starting with that Sunday night game, he caught 151 passes for 2,238 yards and 22 TDs, stats that Moss or Jerry Rice would be proud of. If we want to stick with 16-game chunks, I see one in there where he caught 117 passes for 1,796 yards and 18 TDs.

But those All-World numbers came from back in 2014-15, and that’s a galaxy away for NFL purposes. Josh Gordon was also a remarkable receiver at that time. Years go by, and players change.

For me, if you’ve got Beckham, you’re hoping he can kind of be another Robert Woods, with probably fewer catches but maybe more big plays. But I’m not super confident that will happen. I wouldn’t surprise me at all if Van Jefferson in December finishes with better numbers than Beckham. I consider Beckham to be much closer to Jefferson than to Cooper Kupp.

ODELL BECKHAM, GAME-BY-GAME RECEIVING
Year	Tm	Opp	Result	No	Yds	Avg	TD
2014	NYG	at PHI	L 0-27	2	28	14.0	0
2014	NYG	at DAL	L 21-31	4	34	8.5	2
2014	NYG	IND	L 24-40	8	156	19.5	0
2014	NYG	at SEA	L 17-38	7	108	15.4	0
2014	NYG	SFO	L 10-16	6	93	15.5	0
2014	NYG	DAL	L 28-31	10	146	14.6	2
2014	NYG	at JAX	L 24-25	7	90	12.9	0
2014	NYG	at TEN	W 36-7	11	130	11.8	1
2014	NYG	WAS	W 24-13	12	143	11.9	3
2014	NYG	at STL	W 37-27	8	148	18.5	2
2014	NYG	PHI	L 26-34	12	185	15.4	1
2015	NYG	at DAL	L 26-27	5	44	8.8	0
2015	NYG	ATL	L 20-24	7	146	20.9	1
2015	NYG	WAS	W 32-21	7	79	11.3	1
2015	NYG	at BUF	W 24-10	5	38	7.6	0
2015	NYG	SFO	W 30-27	7	121	17.3	1
2015	NYG	at PHI	L 7-27	7	61	8.7	1
2015	NYG	DAL	W 27-20	4	35	8.8	0
2015	NYG	at NOR	L 49-52	8	130	16.3	3
2015	NYG	at TAM	W 32-18	9	105	11.7	0
2015	NYG	NWE	L 26-27	4	104	26.0	1
2015	NYG	at WAS	L 14-20	9	142	15.8	1
2015	NYG	NYJ	L 20-23	6	149	24.8	1
2015	NYG	at MIA	W 31-24	7	166	23.7	2
2015	NYG	CAR	L 35-38	6	76	12.7	1
2015	NYG	PHI	L 30-35	5	54	10.8	0
2016	NYG	at DAL	W 20-19	4	73	18.3	0
2016	NYG	NOR	W 16-13	8	86	10.8	0
2016	NYG	WAS	L 27-29	7	121	17.3	0
2016	NYG	at MIN	L 10-24	3	23	7.7	0
2016	NYG	at GNB	L 16-23	5	56	11.2	1
2016	NYG	BAL	W 27-23	8	222	27.8	2
2016	NYG	at LAR	W 17-10	5	49	9.8	0
2016	NYG	PHI	W 28-23	4	46	11.5	2
2016	NYG	CIN	W 21-20	10	97	9.7	1
2016	NYG	CHI	W 22-16	5	46	9.2	0
2016	NYG	at CLE	W 27-13	6	96	16.0	2
2016	NYG	at PIT	L 14-24	10	100	10.0	0
2016	NYG	DAL	W 10-7	4	94	23.5	1
2016	NYG	DET	W 17-6	6	64	10.7	1
2016	NYG	at PHI	L 19-24	11	150	13.6	0
2016	NYG	at WAS	W 19-10	5	44	8.8	0
2016	NYG	at GNB	L 13-38	4	28	7.0	0
2017	NYG	DET	L 10-24	4	36	9.0	0
2017	NYG	at PHI	L 24-27	9	79	8.8	2
2017	NYG	at TAM	L 23-25	7	90	12.9	0
2017	NYG	LAC	L 22-27	5	97	19.4	1
2018	NYG	JAX	L 15-20	11	111	10.1	0
2018	NYG	at DAL	L 13-20	4	51	12.8	0
2018	NYG	at HOU	W 27-22	9	109	12.1	0
2018	NYG	NOR	L 18-33	7	60	8.6	0
2018	NYG	at CAR	L 31-33	8	131	16.4	1
2018	NYG	PHI	L 13-34	6	44	7.3	0
2018	NYG	at ATL	L 20-23	8	143	17.9	1
2018	NYG	WAS	L 13-20	8	136	17.0	0
2018	NYG	at SFO	W 27-23	4	73	18.3	2
2018	NYG	TAM	W 38-35	4	74	18.5	1
2018	NYG	at PHI	L 22-25	5	85	17.0	0
2018	NYG	CHI	W 30-27	3	35	11.7	1
2019	CLE	TEN	L 13-43	7	71	10.1	0
2019	CLE	at NYJ	W 23-3	6	161	26.8	1
2019	CLE	LAR	L 13-20	6	56	9.3	0
2019	CLE	at BAL	W 40-25	2	20	10.0	0
2019	CLE	at SFO	L 3-31	2	27	13.5	0
2019	CLE	SEA	L 28-32	6	101	16.8	0
2019	CLE	at NWE	L 13-27	5	52	10.4	0
2019	CLE	at DEN	L 19-24	5	87	17.4	0
2019	CLE	BUF	W 19-16	5	57	11.4	0
2019	CLE	PIT	W 21-7	4	60	15.0	0
2019	CLE	MIA	W 41-24	6	84	14.0	1
2019	CLE	at PIT	L 13-20	3	29	9.7	0
2019	CLE	CIN	W 27-19	2	39	19.5	0
2019	CLE	at ARI	L 24-38	8	66	8.3	0
2019	CLE	BAL	L 15-31	4	44	11.0	1
2019	CLE	at CIN	L 23-33	3	81	27.0	1
2020	CLE	at BAL	L 6-38	3	22	7.3	0
2020	CLE	CIN	W 35-30	4	74	18.5	1
2020	CLE	WAS	W 34-20	4	59	14.8	0
2020	CLE	at DAL	W 49-38	5	81	16.2	2
2020	CLE	IND	W 32-23	5	58	11.6	0
2020	CLE	at PIT	L 7-38	2	25	12.5	0
2020	CLE	at CIN	W 37-34	0	0	-	0
2021	CLE	CHI	W 26-6	5	77	15.4	0
2021	CLE	at MIN	W 14-7	2	27	13.5	0
2021	CLE	at LAC	L 42-47	2	20	10.0	0
2021	CLE	ARI	L 14-37	5	79	15.8	0
2021	CLE	DEN	W 17-14	2	23	11.5	0
2021	CLE	PIT	L 10-15	1	6	6.0	0
2021	LAR	at SFO	L 10-31	2	18	9.0	0

Statistics compiled using search tools at Pro-Football-Reference.com

—Ian Allan

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