There are few players in the league as polarizing as former New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. The 33-year-old has always had a flair for the dramatics (fighting the kicking net, sideline outbursts, media comments, etc.), while simultaneously being one of the most electric playmakers in the league’s history... when healthy.
The “when healthy” distinction is never a positive one. I liken it to the way NFL analysts call someone a “former first-round pick” after they get signed to gas them up a bit. It feels like agent talk. Nonetheless, OBJ’s name is all the way back in the fold, with seemingly everyone and their friends' cousins' dog having an opinion on whether the G-Men should bring him home.
Giants legend Victor Cruz was one of the latest to chime in on a potential OBJ reunion. The former salsa-dancing wideout dropped into Pat McAfee’s comments with a pretty hard-to-miss request to Joe Schoen and John Harbaugh: “Bring my boy back man. It just makes sense:”
Bring my boy back man. It just makes sense.
— Victor Cruz (@TeamVic) April 1, 2026
Victor Cruz is all in on bringing Odell Beckham Jr. back to New York
Since being released by New York in 2017, Cruz has never been shy about speaking his mind when it comes to Big Blue.
He’s spoken out about Malik Nabers’ involvement in the offense, telling Schoen the 22-year-old needs a real shot to compete for a ring with proper roster building around him. He’s also said he wasn’t surprised when Harbaugh took the head coaching job, pointing to the challenge of getting this team back into the conversation as something that likely drew him in.
So it's really no surprise at all that he chimed in on the Beckham situation.
A big reason this is even a conversation right now is Tom Brady's flag football game held earlier in the offseason. OBJ played in the game and looked like the OBJ of old. But it's still flag football.
Since then, reports have been swirling about the 2014 first-round pick’s interest in coming back to the NFL -- specifically to New York, where he’d be working under Harbaugh again after their time together in Baltimore in 2023. Harbs only added to it at the League Meetings in Phoenix, saying he’s looking at every option to upgrade the roster, and Beckham is one of them.
The former LSU star has publicly said he never wanted to leave North Jersey, and plenty of fans would love to see the one-handed highlight reel back. Nostalgia plays a big role here, and Cruz knows that, too. He’d probably slot in ahead of guys like Jalin Hyatt and Beaux Collins, but he’s not coming in to be WR1 or anything close to it. More than anything, he’d bring energy to the locker room and give the whole team a different feel just by being around.
Like Cruz said, sometimes it just makes sense.