Beckham<\/a>, 33, has not played in an NFL game since 2024 for the Miami Dolphins. But he wants to play again, and he hasn\u2019t been shy about making clear that he would love to run it back in New York.<\/p>\nHe played for Harbaugh\u2019s Baltimore Ravens in 2023 prior to his stop in South Beach, so signing with the Giants would be a reunion with both the football team and Harbaugh as his head coach.<\/p>\n
Beckham rekindled hype around his highlight reel talents with a one-handed touchdown catch at the Fanatics Flag Football Classic recently. And Giants co-owner John Mara \u2014 who is in attendance here at the 2026 NFL owners meetings \u2014 has spoken several times since trading Beckham to Cleveland in March 2019 about how strong an affinity he still has for OBJ.<\/p>\n
Signing a player like Beckham who does not play special teams to a one-year, low-cost contract wouldn\u2019t be the normal allocation of those assets on an NFL roster. But Beckham\u2019s supernova early Giants career keeps him beloved in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n
He could be a terrific influence on the impressionable and young Malik Nabers. And he still has the talent to make plays on the field on offense.<\/p>\n
Beckham\u2019s intention was to play here for a long time. He signed a major contract extension in 2018 shortly before Dave Gettleman traded him away in March 2019.<\/p>\n
Maybe now Harbaugh and Beckham can collaborate to make some of that right, help Beckham go out on a high note with the franchise that drafted him and help the Giants get back on track as an organization.<\/p>\n
HARBAUGH HAS LOVE FOR LOVE<\/p>\n
Harbaugh did not hide his affinity for Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, who is an option for the Giants with the No. 5 overall pick. He was asked if he agreed that Love is a good player.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I do,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d probably put very, very good player. Put a couple \u2018very\u2019s in front of it. Maybe a couple more. He\u2019s very good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh said you \u201crecognize\u201d the business side of drafting a running back that high when making a final decision, but he said the driving force behind the Giants\u2019 decision will be their football on their field \u2014 and getting a player who helps them win.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe business is football,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cWe are a football business. That\u2019s what we do. And we\u2019re trying to make our fans happy. We want to win games. We want to be successful. We want them to come out to the stadium and be happy after the game, be celebrating.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to do that,\u201d he continued, \u201cwe\u2019ve got to build the very best team we can. So you build the best team you can with the best players you can get. And you put them out there and let them play. That\u2019s where it starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
NOT OPPOSED TO TRADING BACK<\/p>\n
The Baltimore Ravens, Harbaugh\u2019s former organization, believe in acquiring maximum draft capital to take more swings in the college pool. Harbaugh was asked what his appetite is for possibly trading back from No. 5 to get a player plus more assets.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s open to it, but the Giants will have to strategize and be prepared for all scenarios. There will no doubt be players they intend to pick at No. 5 if they\u2019re still on the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the opportunity as it presents itself,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cSo we definitely would be interested in that. I think there\u2019s no way you could ever say, \u2018Oh, no way we could ever do that.\u2019 There might be player you\u2019d never trade way from. That\u2019s part of the strategy, and you\u2019ve got to kind of work the math out on all that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe Joe [Schoen] will do an amazing job with his staff of exactly what the details are of what it would take to trade away from each person in each scenario for our team,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ll talk about that and finalize that probably a day or two or three before the draft and just have that ready. And we\u2019ll know what we\u2019re willing to do and what we\u2019re not willing to do. And that\u2019ll be our plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh also said no matter what the Giants plan, it also comes down to having a willing trade partner. He observed Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and GMs Ozzie Newsome and Eric DeCosta navigate those waters for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard Eric and Steve say it all the time, Ozzie say it: Then you look at the phone as your time comes up, sometimes it rings, sometimes it doesn\u2019t,\u201d Harbaugh said with a smile. \u201cSo we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
MARA ATTENDS MEETINGS<\/p>\n
It is encouraging to see Mara representing the Giants at this owners\u2019 meetings. He did not travel with the Giants on the road last season due to his cancer battle, and although he attended Harbaugh\u2019s introductory press conference, Chris Mara spoke for ownership and the team that day.<\/p>\n
Co-owner Steve Tisch\u2019s scandal and documented association with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has destabilized an already murky ownership situation. So Mara\u2019s presence is steadying if not necessary.<\/p>\n
Tisch and his family also are offloading their remaining shares to their children\u2019s trusts in the wake of his scandal, so it is understandable why Mara\u2019s voice is needed especially now in this trying time for the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX, Ariz. \u2014 John Harbaugh and Odell Beckham Jr. have discussed a possible Giants reunion. They text frequently.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,115869,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-844338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-odell-beckham-jr-giants-john-harbaugh","14":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116321951775574201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844338","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=844338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}