In a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Cleveland Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr. opened up about the end of his five-year tenure with the New York Giants. He told the magazine he didn’t necessarily feel disappointed about the trade from New York to Cleveland, but that he felt disrespected.
“Like, after everything I’ve done for them,” he said.
“I felt disrespected because I felt like I was a main reason at keeping that brand alive. They were getting prime-time games, still, as a 5-and-11 team. Why? Because people want to see the show. You want to see me play.”
Beckham Jr. also reveals that the first time he heard from his then-head coach Pat Shurmur after the trade was via a text message reading: “Oh, yeah, I heard the news.”
“It was just tough because of the way I initially felt,” OBJ told GQ. “On the other side of it, I was excited about a new start because I had been—honestly, I had been praying to God the season before this season for a change.”
