The Kansas City Chiefs should look to add wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to their roster as they look to defend their Super Bowl title next season, urged former NFL star Robert Griffin III.
The Chiefs are on top of the world after winning back-to-back Super Bowls but, as they look to clinch a three-peat, Griffin believes they need to make an addition to bolster their offense around Patrick Mahomes.
The former quarterback called for Kansas City to sign Beckham Jr. this offseason as he insisted the wideout was still ‘dynamic’.
‘The @chiefs SHOULD SIGN Odell Beckham Jr.,’ Griffin tweeted. ‘Last year he proved he is STILL DYNAMIC after being 8th in the NFL averaging 16.1 yards per catch.
‘The @Chiefs struggled with drops last year, but @obj had the lowest drop rate of his career with 1 drop on 64 targets (1.6%). Chief him.’
The Chiefs should sign Odell Beckham Jr., claimed former NFL star Robert Griffin III
Griffin believes they need to make an addition to bolster their offense around Patrick Mahomes
One fan responded that Beckham’s potential price tag could prove to be an issue, claiming that the Chiefs would likely have to shell out $15million or more.
However, Griffin appeared to have inside knowledge as he hit back, ‘They won’t have to.’
Beckham joined the Ravens last year on a one-year contract worth $15million but Baltimore spread out the hit by paying $13.835 million as a signing bonus and included four void years. Beckham’s 2024 salary cap charge is $3,977,000.
OBJ landed in Baltimore last year after returning from an ACL injury, which he sustained during the LA Rams’ Super Bowl victory in 2022 and ruled him out of the entire 2022-23 season.
However, despite being a Super Bowl winner, he recorded just 35 catches for 565 yards and three touchdowns with the Ravens last season, leaving many to believe the Ravens overpaid for him.
Beckham and the Ravens’ season came to an end at the hands of the Chiefs, when Travis Kelce and co beat them in the AFC Championship game.
Meanwhile, Chiefs Kingdom welcomed pop royalty to Arrowhead Stadium this past season with Taylor Swift cheering on tight end boyfriend Travis Kelce.
And, if the Chiefs do sign Beckham, they could have yet another celebrity gracing their stands.
Travis Kelce (left) and co beat Bekcham and the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship
Kelce’s pop star girlfriend Taylor Swift has regularly been at Arrowhead to support her man
Wide receiver Beckham is dating reality TV star and business mogul Kim Kardashian
Beckham is dating reality TV star and business mogul Kim Kardashian with the pair spotted together in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week.
However, whether Kim will sit alongside Taylor and her Chiefs WAG pals Brittany Mahomes and Lindsay Bell is doubtful, given the two A-Listers’ long-standing feud.
The bitter history between the two began in 2016 when Kim’s ex-husband, rapper Kanye West, released his 2016 track ‘Famous’ which included a vulgar reference to Swift in the lyrics
Taylor, understandably, took offense. However, Kanye defended the line, claiming he had a phone conversation with Taylor and that she had consented to the lyric ahead of time, which she denied.
Taylor continued to accuse Kanye of lying which prompted Kim to release a partial recording of the call in question. Taylor hit back, claiming that while Kanye spoke through some of the lyrics, he never said that he would call her a ‘b***h.’
Kim attended the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, while Taylor supported Kelce and the Chiefs
Taylor opened up on the ordeal during her interview with TIME last year, after she was named the magazine’s Person of the Year in December.
She said that the public fallout felt like ‘a career death,’ adding: ‘Make no mistake — my career was taken away from me.’
Referring to release of the recorded conversation she added: ‘You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar.’
‘That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls.’