{"id":48066,"date":"2018-08-27T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=48066"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:47:26","slug":"odell-beckham-jr-signs-extension-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/08\/27\/odell-beckham-jr-signs-extension-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell Beckham Jr. Signs Extension With New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some months of conversation, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BeckOd00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Odell Beckham<\/a>\u00a0Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0has signed the contract extension with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Giants<\/a> that will make him the highest paid wide receiver in the league. The deal is for five years and worth $95 million. It also comes with a $65 million guarantee, which is the highest ever for a receiver.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Giants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Giants<\/a> and WR Odell Beckham Jr have agreed to terms on a 5-year extension worth a whopping $95M, source said. He gets the highest guarantee ever for a WR at $65M and averages $20M over the first 3 years. Nice job by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NYG<\/a> and agent Zeke Sandhu getting this done. Win\/win\ud83d\udcb0<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1034141614028009472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Odell Beckham Jr. Signs Extension Worth $95 Million With New York Giants<\/h1>\n<p>This is certainly a\u00a0well-deserved\u00a0extension for Beckham with regards to his playmaking. Ever since he entered the league, he\u2019s been lighting it up. Last year would have been more of the same if he had not suffered a season-ending injury after only four games. Despite him coming off that injury, the Giants\u00a0evidently believed\u00a0he had still done enough to warrant the extension. Before he fractured his ankle in 2017, he put up 302 yards and three touchdowns in those four games.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham got things off to a great start in his rookie year right away. Though he missed a few games, he still put up 1,305 yards and 12 touchdowns, earning him an Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Most memorable from that season (and his career in general) is the one-handed touchdown catch he made against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> with\u00a0only\u00a0three fingers gripping it while falling backward.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Beckham has continued to impress. He has gained some criticism as well for some of his on-and-off-the-field behavior (ex: punching a hole in the locker room wall after losing a Wildcard game). Still, his level of play has made him one of the very best receivers in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Through four years (including the one with only four games), he has put up 4,424 yards and 38 touchdowns. That included a season with 101 receptions in 2016. He\u2019s made the Pro Bowl three times (2014-2016) and has earned a couple of All-Pro honors as well (2015-2016). He will be looking to bounce back from his injury last year. His presence will certainly help out quarterback <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MannEl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eli Manning<\/a><\/strong> during the final years of his career.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"fJ_XLSI_QEpmXXtovs_RDg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/853172616\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fJ_XLSI_QEpmXXtovs_RDg',sig:'M0EDimHSLzH9IfsWtfTqclzlh_uIwrTUU7YM83gVeMU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'853172616',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some months of conversation, Odell Beckham, Jr. has signed a deal that includes the most guaranteed money for a wide receiver in NFL history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2355,"featured_media":48070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2,20],"tags":[478,61,92,40,514],"class_list":["post-48066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-featured","category-giants","tag-eli-manning","tag-football","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-odell-beckham-jr"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}