On June 5, 2014, Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham downplayed the fact that he sat out of a Giants OTA practice because of a sore hamstring as a precautionary decision.
Beckham said, via the New York Daily News, that he’d played in games with similar soreness earlier in his career and that he’d be able to practice the next day. As it turned out, Beckham barely practiced again until the season was underway as the injury wound up being one that lingered long enough to keep him out of four games. That timeline comes to mind this week because Beckham sounded pretty similar when describing the sore hamstring that kept him from doing much at practice on Monday.
It’s his right hamstring this time, but things sounded familiar in quotes from Beckham distributed by the team. Beckham said he’d be able to play in a game if the Giants had one this week and used the word “precautionary” to describe the decision to keep things limited while adding that he believes things were totally different this time.
“Absolutely not,” Beckham said. “I try not to even think about last year. Comparing this to last year is just not even comparable.”
There’s not much about last year that anyone with the Giants want to think about other than Beckham’s performance once he was finally healthy, which means there are plenty of people hoping that things stop sounding like last year as soon as possible.