14. Odell Beckham Jr.

Team: Cleveland Browns

Position: WR

Experience: 5 Years

The notion of the diva wide receiver is not new to the NFL. The idea dates back to Michael Irvin and there are plenty of other examples leading up to modern-day to pick from. The player today who is most often associated with this moniker is Cleveland Browns superstar Odell Beckham Jr. The wideout has yet to play one game in a Browns uniform but has made plenty of headlines in the short time he’s been with the team. However, no matter how much news he makes he more often than not cashes the checks that his talk writes.

During his five seasons with the New York Giants, he routinely made highlight plays and broke records. As a rookie, his 108.8 yards per game average led the league. By his third season, he eclipsed the 100 receptions in a season mark. That same year he led the league in average yards per touch (13.5 yards). Yet, despite the All-Pro receiver’s talents, the Giants were unable to accomplish sustained success with him on the roster. When it came time to re-up, New York gave him what was then the biggest contract in NFL history for his position. However, before the ink dried Beckham was sent packing to Ohio.

What was once a place where nothing good happened, Cleveland has transformed itself into a respectable organization in a flash. Drafting the likes of Myles Garrett and Baker Mayfield first overall and bringing in veterans Jarvis Landry, Sheldon Richardson, and Kareem Hunt has upgraded the organization. The team is now expected to at least make the playoffs given the amount of talent they have gathered heading into the season. Offensively, this team could break some records this year. Mayfield is an upgrade over an older Eli Manning, Nick Chubb is no Saquon Barkley but he nearly had a 1,000-yard season as a rookie, and Beckham is joined by Landry and emerging talents Antonio Callaway, Rashad Higgins, and tight end David Njoku on the outside.

Joining his former LSU teammate, and best friend, Landry provides him with someone who understands him on a deeper level than just football. In case there are any dustups like what happened between Beckham and the kicking net in the Big Apple, there’s someone there who can talk to him and get his focus back on playing the game. That tandem easily jumps to the top of the list of best wide receiver duos currently in the league. If both are able to keep their stats inline with what they’ve done to this point they could become the best the NFL has ever seen.

This season could see Beckham unleashed in a way we have yet to see and that thought is a scary one for the rest of the league. The Browns are a serious threat to shake things up in not just the AFC North, not just the AFC but the entire NFL. With one move to acquire an all-time talent who was wasting away elsewhere, the entire outlook of the league flipped on its head.