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Odell Beckham Jr.

American football player (born 1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Odell Cornelious Beckham Jr., commonly known by his initials OBJ, is an American professional football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers and was selected by the Giants in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft. He has played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Baltimore Ravens, and Miami Dolphins.

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The public source identifies “Odell Beckham Jr.” as american football player (born 1992). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Odell, Beckham and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Odell, Beckham and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Odell Beckham Jr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.