EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J — Some might describe the feeling as antsy or restless.
Odell Beckham Jr. instead describes his 2025 season away from football as “unsettling in my soul.”
“My whole life, for better or worse, is pushing it to the limit …” the again-New York Giants receiver said Wednesday. “I’ve never surrendered or quit or felt like I’ve given up on myself or anything. It just wasn’t sitting with me well.”
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So Beckham ignored the reality that he’d missed all of the 2025 NFL season, in part as he served a six-game suspension for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. Beckham set aside the lingering knee rehabilitation that limited him to just nine catches with the Miami Dolphins in 2024, and he committed to working through the restrictions that trailed his left ACL tears from October 2020 and February 2022.
Yes, Beckham is now 33 years old, hardly spry in pro football years. And yes, he once left the Giants with a bang after a spectacular rookie year and four 1,000-yard seasons in five tries.
No matter: On Monday, the Giants signed Beckham. On Wednesday in a practice open to reporters, he was practicing. Beckham warmed up with curtsy lunges and hamstring stretches, and he caught short passes before integrating into routes on air and eventually some team drills.
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Head coach John Harbaugh, who coached Beckham in Baltimore in 2024, was left opining that Beckham “seems like he’s healthier” than he was in 2024. He looked better in a workout this Monday than he did in an April workout with the Giants, Harbaugh said. And now Beckham will try to earn — he and Harbaugh both emphasized that he’ll need to earn, not be given — a spot on the Giants’ 2026 roster.
“The biggest thing is him being in really, really good shape,” Harbaugh said Wednesday. “We talked about this, he would tell you this: ‘You can’t just be OK. You’re Odell Beckham. You’ve got to come out here and you have to be performing at a high level in workout. You’ve got to be performing at a high level in practice. You got to be a guy capable that we can see would have a chance to make a difference in NFL games …
“Who knows better what kind of player that is than Odell Beckham?”
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But how did Beckham work to get back?
Harbaugh on Beckham: ‘He’s healthier now’
Nic Hill says he and Beckham reconnected to train in Miami back in November before Beckham moved to Phoenix in February for more full-time training.
Beckham integrated into a routine that averaged four days a week at EXOS, where Hill has spent the last decade as a performance specialist.
Sessions emphasized speed and mobility, factoring in the ideal weight for Beckham to compete in the NFL at 33 years old. While Beckham has competed at 210 with more muscle, Hill said, the benefit of strength didn’t outweigh the detriment to his speed. So since February, they worked to get Beckham down from 210 to the 198 pounds at which the Giants are now listing him.
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“Making sure that he felt strong, he felt powerful, but he also felt fast and bouncy and fluid,” Hill told Yahoo Sports by phone Wednesday night, so that “he moved really well and he wasn’t too stiff and he could be mobile and rotate.”
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