NFL champion wide receiver with the Los Angeles Rams, Odell Beckhamaffirmed this Sunday that he played the second part of the 2021 season and Super Bowl LVI practically with the torn anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee.
“I really played the whole second half of the season. without an anterior cruciate ligament and I won a Super Bowl,” the player wrote on Twitter.
The receiver currently recovers from the operation ligament rupture to which he underwent last March.
Odell Beckham helped the Rams win the trophy Vince Lombardi on February 13. In the game in which Los Angeles beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20, the receiver caught two passes to 56 yards and contributed an annotation.
The Baton Rouge, Louisiana native left the NFL title game to almost four minutes from the end of the first half After trying to receive a pass from Matthew Stafford, on the play Beckham fell to the grass and immediately took his left knee.
The three-time Pro Bowl selection he returned to the field in the third quarter with a leg protector to encourage his teammates and celebrate the victory they eventually achieved. Days later he confirmed his injury.
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Second ligament injury for Odell Beckham Jr.
is the second time that the catcher tears his anterior cruciate ligament, the first one was when he was playing for the Cleveland Browns en 2020a team he left in the middle of the 2021 campaign, the date on which he assured he began to have knee problems.
Despite the pain of playing in those conditions, Odell Beckham caught 27 passes for 305 yards and five touchdowns in eight regular-season games with the Rams.
In the postseason he added 21 receptions that gave him 288 yards, in addition to two touchdowns.
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Will he play for the Rams again?
The present of the player places it as free agent. His chances of returning for the 2022 season with the Los Angeles Rams are high, Los Angeles coach Sean McVay shared last month.
“Odell and I have a great relationship. I love Odell so only he could come to my wedding uninvited and he did. I told; You came to my wedding, so you sign back with the Rams”, declared the “coach” after meeting Beckham again at said party.
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