One of the Dolphins’ most disastrous free agent experiments in recent memory just found a way to look even worse a year later
It’s hard to get much worse than 6 yards per catch, one catch per game, and bad body language on the field — but here we are.
The Miami Dolphins have not have much consistent luck with their big-name transactions in recent years. Tight end Darren Waller has looked like a rousing success but only after missing the first three weeks of the season. Cornerback Jalen Ramsey injured his meniscus the first weekend of his first year in Miami and would go on to miss half of the 2023 season. Standout wide receiver Will Fuller signed in Miami in 2021 and caught four passes for 26 yards before disappearing for the majority of the year with a finger injury after a career year in 2020 with the Texans.
None of them hold a candle to the circus Odell Beckham Jr. brought to town in 2024. Beckham Jr. signed with Miami in the summer of 2024 and spent all of training camp and the first month of the regular season on the PUP list due to offseason knee surgery. He spent most of training camp running striders on Miami’s far field at the Baptist Health Training Complex. As a backdrop to this, Beckham Jr. stated football “wasn’t really a priority” for him and that he “probably” waited longer than he should have for a cleanup knee procedure — which cost him the ability to roll at the start of the season.
Beckham Jr. would go on to post 9 receptions for 55 yards in nine games with the Dolphins before being released. And somehow, after all of that, his signing is now looking even worse with a new revelation a year later.
Odell Beckham Jr. reveals he failed a drug test during his time with Dolphins in 2024 and will serve a six-game suspension
During an interview with ‘The Pivot’, Beckham Jr. revealed his plans to play in 2025 and that serving a six-game suspension was something he has accepted as a part of his process to pursue that. Hopefully Beckham Jr. can land somewhere in which he’ll be a featured piece of the puzzle — as he spent much of his time on the field with the Dolphins illustrating frustrated body language amid a lack of touches. Even when his teammates would find the end zone instead.
It was a steady, progressive fallout for Beckham Jr. and the Dolphins in 2024.
Odell Beckham Jr.’s career by the numbers
- 575 career receptions
- 7,987 career receiving yards
- 59 career receiving touchdowns
- Three Pro Bowl honors
- 2014 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year
As is, you can officially put a failed drug test and subsequent suspension on the board for Odell for his time in Miami — adding yet another thing to the list of things he logged more of than touchdowns as a member of the organization.
Beckham Jr. was a part of a toxic mix of talent in South Florida with the Dolphins in 2024. It was a collection of players from different professional backgrounds that proved to be a melting pot that bubbled over in pursuit of breaking through the glass ceiling that Mike McDaniel’s teams were faced with in 2022 and 2023. Instead of helping lead the charge out of the mess, Beckham Jr. and a slew of other veterans brought into the fray proved to instead shift Miami down a path that needed undoing.
Miami’s experiment with Odell Beckham Jr. was a disaster. We all saw that last season. But for it to have become an even bigger train wreck 10 months after the fact, as Beckham Jr. just revealed? That’s a new all-time low.
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