On Sunday the Baltimore Ravens agreed to terms with wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr to a one-year deal. The move significantly improves the receiver room heading into the 2023, and should make Baltimore’s offense much scarier to face.
During Beckham’s introductory press conference, general manager Eric DeCosta opened up about how he recruited the star to Baltimore and how the process took shape. The general manager talked about how Beckham’s recruitment spanned back to October, and how he was thrilled to finally get him in the building.
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“Well first of all everybody, thanks for coming out today. It’s exciting for us and a great opportunity for us to announce Odell Beckham as our latest addition to the team. Welcome to his beautiful family. We had the chance to spend some time with them last night. His son – who I already want to represent in about 20 years – because he’s going to be a heck of an athlete. It was really a whirlwind for us; this has been something that’s been really percolating over the past year. We’ve had conversations with Odell’s agent, Zeke [Sandhu], who’s here today. This has been something that we’ve been focused on really going back to last October; we’ve had conversations to try to possibly, potentially get something worked out. It’s a great feeling for us. We had a chance to attend Odell’s workout last month in Arizona. We also had the chance to spend some time with him in Arizona during the [NFL] owner’s meetings several weeks ago. [It was a] great meeting. We went into it knowing we were the underdogs, and sometimes it’s a great story; sometimes the underdog wins. We’re thrilled to have him here today, and we’re thrilled for what this means for our football team.”
The next order of business for Baltimore is to get quarterback Lamar Jackson signed to a long-term deal. The front office made sure to upgrade the team’s most important position of need in hopes of making Jackson happy and to make sure that he can be as successful as he can be behind center.
