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Odell Beckham Jr. 2026 “highlights” just dropped Zero catches. Barely any snaps. The Giants reunion is already over.
Odell Beckham Jr. 2026 “highlights” just dropped 🥀*
*Zero catches. Barely any snaps. The Giants reunion is already over.*
The 2026 Odell Beckham Jr. highlight tape is 20 seconds long.
Literally. That’s how many snaps he played.
The New York Giants officially cut OBJ on Tuesday morning, ending the feel-good reunion after just 3 games, and the stat line is brutal:
*2026 stats: 3 games, 20 snaps, 1 target, 0 catches, 0 yards.*
That’s it. That’s the whole comeback.
The internet didn’t waste any time. By noon, the “2026 highlights” edits were everywhere — a 7-second clip of him warming up against the Titans, a blocking rep, and then jogging off. Caption: 🥀
And it hurts because training camp actually gave people hope.
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Beckham signed a 1-year, $1.3M prove-it deal in June — 8 years after the Giants traded him. He was supposed to be done. He sat out all of 2025 after a 6-game PED suspension, last caught a pass in 2024 in Miami (9 for 55). But he showed up, looked fast, and made the 53-man roster outright with 7 catches for 76 yards in the preseason.
Then the season started and John Harbaugh’s offense just didn’t have a spot for him.
Malik Nabers is the WR1. Rookie Malachi Fields is getting the deep shots. Darnell Mooney is playing the slot. OBJ was WR4 in a 2-WR offense.
Week 1 at Washington: 11 snaps.
Week 2 vs Dallas: 3 snaps — same game rookie QB Jaxson Dart went down with a season-ending injury.
Week 3 vs Tennessee: 6 snaps, 1 target from Jameis Winston that hit the turf. Final game as a Giant.
Harbaugh said Sunday _should_ be the game where his role expands. It went the other way.
Now the Giants are 2-1, just traded for J.J. McCarthy to back up Winston, and need roster spots for Braxton Berrios and linebacker Malik Harrison. A 33-year-old WR4 who doesn’t play special teams is the first to go.
It’s a sad end for a franchise legend — 12th overall pick in 2014, Offensive Rookie of the Year, the one-handed catch vs Dallas, 390 catches, 5,476 yards, 44 TDs in blue.
From that to zero catches and a meme highlight video.
Per Jordan Schultz, both sides called it a “mutual parting” so Beckham can try to catch on somewhere else where he’ll actually play. Rams and Niners are already being mentioned.
But for New York, the reunion is over.
Three games. No catches. One wilting rose emoji.
