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(Image via Getty: Odell Beckham Jr.)
Social media post interpretation is a double-edged sword. One post can lead to so many unwanted interpretations - Like Odell Beckham Jr.’s recent Instagram post. The 32-year-old wide receiver, who last played for the Miami Dolphins, shared a series of snapshots on his Instagram.
The post contained a total of seventeen snapshots! Now, a fake X account of a renowned NFL Insider, Adam Schefter, supposedly concluded from Beckham Jr.’s seventeen snapshots that he was retiring. The fake X account said that Odell was retiring. This wasn’t the case. His seventeen snapshots were not going to put a lid on his NFL career. An IG user even commented on the post, clearing the air, “I hate when you post this every preseason hahahahaga.”
But somehow, the post led everyone to believe Odell Beckham Jr.
’s retirement rumors! What was so suspicious in those snapshots? What was the misleading caption? Let’s find out.
Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.’s seventeen Instagram snapshots
- A photo of Odell Beckham Jr. dressed in workout clothes, staring at the gridiron with his right hand carrying the NFL Duke.
- A snapshot that captured him running on the field.
- Two photographers photographed the wideout running with the ball.
- A quote picture: “Let people doubt you.”
- A snapshot of the wide receiver squatting and scoring a touchdown.
- An overhead shot where Beckham Jr. looks lost in thought.
- Odell is posing with Baltimore Ravens wideout Zay Flowers, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, and running back for Chicago Bears D’Andre Swift on the gridiron.
- Video of American rapper and singer, Kevin Gates, quoting - “The beautiful thing about mistakes is it’s okay for people to see you make a mistake, just don’t ever let a m***erf***er see you quit. You are gonna watch me make mistakes, but you ain’t gonna ever watch me quit. - The Marathon Continues.”
- The WR engaged in a training photoshoot.
- Wide receiver is captured running on a treadmill.
- A quote picture: “The right doors won’t open for you until you’re the version of yourself that’s supposed to walk through them.”
- Another Odell training photoshoot - this time featuring his trainer.
- Beckham Jr. is taking up a gasping pose with his hands on his knees.
- A quote picture: “The next 5 months of 2025 are going to be non-stop wins for you…”
- Wideout photographed counting seconds for his plank pose.
- The WR is flaunting his six-pack abs in a monochrome photo.
- A video of an American rapper and record producer, Lil Boosie, quoting - “They wanna see you down. They don’t like it when you are still smiling. And I know that. So I gotta be strong for that too. I ain’t gonna let these m***erf***ers think they got the best of me, even if they’re getting the best of me. Strong will. Let them know you’re not breaking me, man.”
The former wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens captioned these seventeen snapshots as: “I just been in the cuts getting it in… gotta write the ending to my own story. Gods plan.” Following this caption and the series of snapshots, a fake account of Adam Schefter released a retirement rumor via X on August 12.
It read: “After 10 seasons in the NFL, Odell Beckham Jr. has decided to retire. Beckham Jr. played for the Giants, Browns, Rams, Ravens, and Dolphins.
He announced Tuesday.” It amassed 4 million views! Over 1K comments, 5.2K reposts, 74K likes, and 1.5K bookmarks. How did the fans react to this fake announcement?
Fans aired their views on hearing about Odell Beckham Jr.’s retirement news
One fan felt sympathetic for Odell, saying, “Bro loved playing in NY and we let him go for peanuts.” Another fan questioned: “Was Odell Beckham overrated?” A third fan supposedly summed up his 10-year-long career, “His career consists of one great catch, a whack hairstyle, and tantrums on the sidelines LOL.”
A fourth fan went back in time and blamed the Browns, “Cleveland f**ked his Career up.” The wideout played for them for three seasons - from 2019 to 2021.
A fifth fan commented, “Most overrated overhyped player in recent history.”
How did Odell Beckham Jr. brush off his retirement rumors?
A day later, after his retirement rumors had run amok, on August 13, Beckham Jr., a former wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams, wrote on his X: “No seriously. Plz stop reading everything on the internet, and stop texting me happy retirement b4 u piss me off 😭😭😭. That will get no response. I promise u the day I’m done I will let u kno. Again if u text me happy retirement im just gon have to block u😭😭. Thanks.” This X post too garnered 2.7 million views! 4.1K comments, 2.1K reposts, 26K likes, and 670+ bookmarks.Also Read: Puka Nacua’s pregnant ex-girlfriend Hallie Aiono labels him a 'narcissist' | NFL News - Times of India
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