{"id":829216,"date":"2026-03-23T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829216\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:26:14","slug":"odell-beckham-jr-hopes-flag-football-is-a-starting-point-to-nfl-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/829216\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham Jr. hopes flag football is a &#8216;starting point&#8217; to NFL return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/odell-beckham\/\" title=\"Odell Beckham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Odell Beckham<\/a> is back on the radar after participating in the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/team-usa-defeats-wildcats-ffc-in-fanatics-flag-football-classic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fanatics Flag Football Classic<\/a> over the weekend. The former star wideout hasn&#8217;t played in an NFL game since Dec. 8, 2024, but hopes the flag experience gets him back on the radar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward to hopefully getting an opportunity to play this year, and hopefully, this is kinda just a starting point,&#8221; Beckham <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heykayadams\/status\/2035369590042337440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a> Kay Adams at the Fanatics event.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham was specifically asked what it&#8217;d be like to re-join the Giants, his first NFL squad, as <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jaxson-dart\/\" title=\"Jaxson Dart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxson Dart<\/a> could use some receiver aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weird, you said that. That sounds great,&#8221; Beckham responded when asked about Dart. &#8220;If that opportunity presents itself, I would love to do that. Be excited about that. He&#8217;s a good dude. He&#8217;s young, and he likes to dance. I like all that. So he looks like he likes to have fun. If I get that opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Playing with a smaller-than-regulation ball during the flag tournament, Beckham showed he can still snare the pigskin, making several nice grabs, including a one-handed touchdown over a defender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham is back on the radar after participating in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic over the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1227,7,56,88,609,1510,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-829216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-no-minute","13":"tag-odell-beckham","14":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116278958338450538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}