Is Odell Beckham Jr. a steal in fantasy drafts? | Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast
Yahoo Fantasy analysts Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens decide whether the veteran receiver has fantasy upside after joining the Baltimore Ravens and returning from an ACL injury.
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ANDY BEHRENS: Like, who is Odell Beckham at this stage? He turns-- he turns 31 in November. He's had two ACL surgeries. So that's a pretty bad combo, right? Like, multiple ACL comeback stories are few and far between.
Beckham is a guy that Lamar specifically wanted, specifically asked for, right? Like, he was on the shopping list of players from Lamar Jackson. So, like, I think just by default because it's what Lamar probably wants he's going to be a heavily targeted receiver, as long as he's healthy. And there's clearly, whatever you think of the last version of Odell Beckham you saw, like, he's going in the-- he's going in the deep 40s at receiver, right?
Like, he goes super late. Nobody's fighting you for Odell Beckham, if you're interested. And it hasn't been that way in a while. And again, if he can just be the guy that he was with the Rams, there's a lot of profit potential there.
MATT HARMON: I still say that his days with the Browns, like, let's not forget that as soon as we got him out of that situation with Baker Mayfield, he was a really good and productive player, and the film did back that up. That he was a good player with Cleveland, he was a good player with the Los Angeles.
He was basically the same player in those couple seasons together, it just one time he was playing with Baker Mayfield, who just sunk DJ Moore last year. Like, there's-- and we can't wait to see what he does with Mike Evans. You know, your guy Baker Mayfield is kind of the number one culprit here in why that relationship did not work out. So I'm with you. I just-- we don't know what he is.
ANDY BEHRENS: Beckham is somebody who can obviously move up draft boards, both-- like, all we're going to need to see are, like, some highlight catches from camp, right, against almost no coverage, which is going to happen. And he just needs to stay healthy. And then there is really a totally realistic chance that by the end of August, but by early September, all of a sudden he's being drafted in, like, the early 30s at receiver because people are like, oh, I know that name. I don't know who any of these rookies are, but I know Odell Beckham. And I've seen a couple of highlights in my Twitter feed. So sure, that could definitely happen, and that would sort of ruin the party.