Odell Beckham Jr. fires back at fan who suggests he's faking injury

Odell Beckham Jr. still hasn’t practiced as a member of the Miami Dolphins and has spent the first weeks of training camp on the team’s PUP list. But when a fan suggested that he’s “pulling off another Will Fuller” and isn’t actually injured, the veteran wide receiver had to respond.

The Dolphins signed Fuller, a former Houston Texans wide receiver, to a one-year, $10.6 million contract in 2021, but got just four receptions out of the acquisition before he landed on injured reserve.

Beckham, 31, continued to defend himself on social media with a few more posts Wednesday:

On Monday, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said he didn’t expect Beckham to be back on the practice field this week, and he’d “put it in the week-to-week category after that.”

“What I know Odell doesn’t want, is getting on the grass and then leaving it,” McDaniel said Wednesday. “His teammates know that he’s working hard because he shows them every day as he gets back on the field where he knows – he didn’t sign up for football to be in meetings. Even though my meetings are super entertaining, I don’t think that was the case. So he’s working his way back to be on the field which is what everyone wants.”

Beckham signed a one-year, incentive-laden deal with the Dolphins worth just $3 million that could be worth as much as $8.25 million if he records at least 55 receptions, 800 yards, and six touchdowns. If he signed with Miami as part of a “Will Fuller retirement package,” a year on the sideline wouldn’t be particularly lucrative for the receiver.

While the injury that has kept Beckham out of action hasn’t been revealed by the Dolphins, there’s not much reason to believe he’s not working to get on the field as soon as possible.