Giants Odell Beckham reportedly open contract talks that could make him highest-paid WR

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It appears Odell Beckham Jr.'s patience has paid off. After saying and doing all the right things this offseason while hoping for a new long-term deal, the and one of the league's most dynamic wide receivers , reports ESPN.com Daniel Winnik Jersey . The news comes a day after Giants co-owner John Mara said the two sides had yet to speak but the plan was to open the lines of communication "sooner rather than later." Beckham showed up in April for the Giants' , and he also reported with his teammates for training camp Mike Reilly Jersey late last month. The takeaway: Beckham was willing to be a team player but with the implicit understanding that he's due a huge pay bump before the start of the season. Beckham, currently on the books for $8.5 million in 2018, is a game-changing talent who's looking to more than double his salary. As it stands, the ' leads all wide receivers, earning $17 million annually, but several other young wideouts have Christian Folin Men Jersey cashed in this offseason, including ($16.5 million average annual salary), ($16.2 million), ($15.1 million), ($14. Eric Fehr Kids Jersey 5 million) and ($14.4 million). How good is Beckham? According to Spotrac, his market value worthy of a five-year, $86.3 million deal that averages $17.2 million a season. Whether that happens is another matter. " ," Mara told CBS Sports Radio's Boomer and Gio on Wednesday when asked if a deal could be done by the regular-season opener against the on Sept. 9. There had been speculation this spring that the Giants might trade Beckham -- though that talk died down after the acquired Brandin Cooks from the . Instead, new Giants coach Pat Shurmur has fostered a strong relationship with the receiver in just a short time. Shurmur flew to Los Angeles shortly Matt Cullen Men Jersey after he was hired to meet with Beckham and he's spoken in glowing terms about Beckham throughout the Mikael Granlund Jersey offseason and into training camp. "I see what I expected to see when we started to communicate back in February," Shurmur said this week. "This guy loves to play football, he trains extremely hard, he's totally engaged in the meetings behind the scenes, the things that the world is not aware of, and he's got a lot of pa sion for the game. We were just out in a walk-through and I saw three or four times when he was talking to different players about certain techniques within the Mike Reilly Women Jersey play. That's all good stuff." And it sounds like it won't be long before Beckham is rewarded for all that hard work.
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