After being released by the Miami Dolphins at the end of 2024, Odell Beckham Jr. has been hinting at his desire for a return to the New York Giants.
But if it doesn’t happen? For the Giants or any other NFL team?
Beckham, 32, sat down with Haute Living Miami magazine to talk bluntly about life after football.
First, the dad was adamant that because of his 3-year-old son Zydn, he does not want to keep moving around. “I’m trying to find the place I could love, enjoy — and build a home,” he said in the lifestyle magazine’s July issue. “My son’s getting to that age. School will be coming up. He needs to feel like he has his own bedroom. His own home. Not always moving.”
In addition to his history with the Giants, other future plans — mainly, a post-NFL career in fashion — make a return to New York make sense for the entrepreneur.
“Life will go on,” he said, of his post-NFL future, whenever that might be. “Bills have to get paid. I’m in a place where I’m doing things that align with me — things that I would enjoy. Not so much trying to find things that make you money. It’s more about your heart. Fashion. Traveling. Having a good time. Enjoying life, family, friends. I’ve worked so hard for so long — it’s time to, at some point, get into just relaxing.”
Odell, in fact, seemed very comfortable with his football career coming to a close. “This is the period of my life where I deserve to relax and have fun,” he said. “This Cannes/Monaco trip is honestly something I’ve done for the last three years, and that I want to do every year that I possibly can. It lets me realize there’s so much more out there…You finish up your career the way you want, or see what’s going to happen, and then it’s going to be really about living life, enjoying it, and enjoying my son and the time that I could have with him.”
In fact, the football star credits young Zydn for a lot — including cleaning up his language.
“I try not to cuss or say too much around him,” Beckham said. “He’s very smart and picking up on everything. So that’s one of the hardest things — you have to change as a person…but [still stay] true to who I am.”
“He’s changed everything in me — my everyday thoughts, my everyday everything,” he added. “[Being a dad] taught me so much patience, so much love. It’s the best thing in the world. You’re looking at your twin, and he does something, and it’s like — it’s just like you. I always ask my mom, ‘Was I like this?’ And she’s like, ‘Exactly like that.’”
If he does officially retire from football, he knows exactly how he wants to be remembered: “for the passion and the excitement I brought to the game,” he said. “I’ve dedicated a lot to [football]. I’ve spent my whole life working to get to this point; I’ve been training since I was young. I want to be able to finish off in the right way. And I hope my son sees that, and hopefully it will motivate him. To know that his dad worked through pain, through injuries, that I was one of the greats, and that I had a lot of fun playing the game.”
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