NFL Analyst Ross Tucker Shares Valid Points While Roasting Hype Around OBJ Signing With Dolphins

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Odell Beckham Jr. recently signed a one-year contract with the Miami Dolphins, his fourth team since the 2021 season. While the move may be a low-risk, high-reward situation for the Dolphins, that doesn't mean that it should be looked at as a league or even team-changing type of move.

Ross Tucker, the former NFL offensive lineman-turned-analyst, isn't even sure OBJ's move to Miami is worth a discussion.

By no means is Tucker the only person out there who agrees that Beckham's best days are behind him, he did however bring the most receipts to the conversation about OBJ's recent history and what it means in regard to him taking his talents to South Beach.

"Odell Beckham Jr. is like a credible case study in the power of getting off to a really fast start, or becoming really popular on social media," Tucker explained. "It is insane that he got $15 million fully guaranteed last year. It’s wild that he signed with the Dolphins and it’s still big news that everybody is posting about.

"When’s the last time it’s actually mattered or meant anything who Odell Beckham Jr. signed with," Tucker later concluded.

While I side with my guy Armando Salguero's opinion that Beckham's ceiling is still high, or at least high enough, to step up and make plays in big-time moments, Tucker's points are more than fair.

Given the injuries he's picked up over the last handful of years and the fact that he's bounced around the league since 2021 he's like this weird outlier of a player that still receives attention for what he did in a New York Giants uniform. The reality is that OBJ hasn't played for the Giants since 2018.

After recovering from his latest ACL injury he suffered during 2021 Super Bowl, Beckham joined the Baltimore Ravens last season and caught 35 passes on 64 targets over the course of his 14 games scoring three touchdowns. As Tucker alluded to, those numbers don't exactly justify the $15 million pricetag he garnered from the Ravens' front office, but hey, you're worth what a team is willing to pay you.

The Dolphins are only paying OBJ $3 million with incentives built in that, if met, he'll earn just over $8 million.  

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