Odell Beckham Jr. reunion highlights trio of Giants signings

Pat Leonard, New York Daily News on Jun 1, 2026

Published in Football

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NEW YORK — OBJ is back in blue.

The Giants signed veteran wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and JuJu Smith-Schuster and veteran punt returner Braxton Berrios after a Monday morning workout.

Beckham, 33, and Smith-Schuster, 29, add depth to an underwhelming receiving corps that has no timetable on the return of top playmaker Malik Nabers as he recovers from a torn right ACL and meniscus.

Berrios, 30, is here to be John Harbaugh’s punt returner after Gunner Olszewski tore his right Achilles in practice last week.

The Beckham signing is an exciting reunion with an electric playmaker who exploded into stardom as a Giants first-round pick of former GM Jerry Reese in 2014.

OBJ hasn’t played in the NFL since a brief 2024 stint with the Miami Dolphins, so he’s not the same player he once was. But owner John Mara always has had a strong affinity for Beckham even after former GM Dave Gettleman traded him to Cleveland in 2019. And that relationship played a role in making this reunion a reality.

Harbaugh also coached Beckham in 2023 and has an affinity for OBJ as a player and a person. So Beckham gets an opportunity to pen a more positive final chapter to his storied time in New York — and maybe help steer the franchise back on track along the way.

He might also end up being a great influence on the young and impressionable Nabers, an incredible talent who still has to mature. If anyone knows the ups and downs of superstardom in the Big Apple, it’s Beckham.

Smith-Schuster could be a good fit due to his familiarity with coordinator Matt Nagy’s offense. He played three seasons in Kansas City with Nagy as a coach on staff.

They won a Super Bowl together in 2022 with Nagy as the quarterbacks coach and worked together in 2023 and 2024 with Nagy as the Chiefs’ OC.

He made 33 catches for 345 yards and a touchdown last season while playing in all 17 games for K.C.

Berrios, meanwhile, has made plays on offense as a receiver in the past with the Jets and Dolphins, but his value is purely as a punt returner.

He has appeared in 10 total games the past two years and made six catches, all with the Houston Texans last season.

The Giants put Beckham through two workouts and had several conversations with him, including a meeting with Harbaugh at the NFL’s owner’s meeting in Arizona this March, before finally agreeing to a deal.

The signing comes 10 days after quarterback Jaxson Dart created a huge distraction by introducing Donald Trump on stage at a rally in New York. All of the discourse around the team has been about Dart’s misstep and teammate Abdul Carter’s pushback on his QB’s actions.

Signing OBJ throws some red meat to the fan base in the wake of Dart’s drama in the Giants’ effort to change the conversation.