Lost amid all of the Twitter-breaking madness of Odell Beckham Jr.'s Spider-Man catch was the fact that he missed the first four games of the season due to injury. Yet, somehow, he still managed to catch 91 balls for 1,305 yards and 12 touchdowns. Logically speaking, that should be impossible. He totaled more receptions, yards and scores than guys like Alshon Jeffery and Andre Johnson in significantly less playing time. What's even scarier to think about is that he could far surpass those numbers next season.
As it turns out, ODB's hamstring injuries didn't go away after the first month of the season. Instead, they bothered him throughout 2014.
"The hamstring injury...was actually two tears in the right hamstring that never fully healed," Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post reports.
Beckham went on to say, "They healed up enough to where I could play with them, but they were never truly good and I'm still just working on them and trying to get ready.
"I should be good by training camp. The plan is to play at full strength next season, and I definitely hope to do it. I'm just looking forward to getting healthy."
Pick your jaws up off the floor, fantasy owners. It is somehow possible that we still haven't seen the best from Beckham. What a tantalizing thought.
ESPN Fantasy Analyst Eric Karabell named ODB his fantasy MVP among wide receivers for this past season, and it's easy to see why.
"What Beckham achieved isn't merely outstanding for a first-year player, but it's worth noting only the ridiculous Randy Moss season from 1998, when he scored 17 touchdowns, topped it," Karabell wrote. "Beckham scored his 197 standard fantasy points (and 288 points in point-per-reception) in 12 games, since he missed September with a hamstring injury. This fear of missed games - along with being an unproven rookie, despite his first-round status in the NFL draft - certainly contributed to Beckham going unselected in ESPN average life drafts. Beckham is arguably the overall fantasy MVP, regardless of position, and also the top free-agent pickup of the season, since he didn't start playing until Week 5. Beckham did his best work in the critical December weeks of the fantasy playoffs, averaging 11 receptions, 152 yards and 25 standard fantasy points per game in that span, and ending up as fantasy's No. 5 wide receiver, and tied with Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles for 11th place among all flex-eligible options. And he was a rookie! Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers was awesome as fantasy's top overall wide receiver, but Beckham outscored him on a per-game basis and, of course, was a far greater value."
You down with ODB? Yeah, you know me.
