It's more than just a joke when you annoy your friend Deebo Samuel during his contract dispute with the San Francisco 49ers. There is a wide receiver contract market. Davante Adams and Tyreek Hill signed record contracts when they were traded by teams that did not want to pay their No. 1 options. You don't have to be traded, you're a free agent, and you tore anACL in the Super Bowl. I don't blame you, you want your name to be remembered. Beckham has been acting like a football player on the social networking site all weekend. On Friday, Beckham asked the world if he should spill the tea he had from Samuel. Samuel asked him to stop laughing. Beckham replied that he was having too much fun, but he wouldn't tell them.
Samuel tried to ignore it and move on. On Saturday, Beckham stepped it up even more. He said that Samuel had been traded.
The world of football people rushed to their phones to report the fake news. Ian Rapoport, Albert Breer, and others said there was no truth in Beckham's report. Samuel didn't deny it, but he made it clear that he isn't a part of the way the country is.
Maybe Beckham is just being The Joker on social media and enjoying watching the internet burn, but I'm not buying that, especially after A.J. Brown got traded to the Philadelphia Eagles and was rewarded with a 4-year $100 million extension. He knows that Samuel is next in line no matter how much the 49ers hem and haw, avoiding trades but not wanting to pay him top-receiver money, and Samuel saying he no longer wants to be the team leader in rushing touchdown.
Beckham wants to be involved in this. He is going to be 30 years old next season, and likely won't be able to play after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in February. With his injury history and age, it wouldn't be the wisest decision to offer him a long-term deal while he's rehabbing and it's not known how well he will return from injury. The New York Giants made Beckham the highest-paid wide receiver in the league last year, and he was starting to look like it. He scored the first touchdown of the Super Bowl in theNFC Championship Game, catching 9 passes for 113 yards.
He doesn't believe that his time as a top NFL wide receiver is over, but with all of these younger players either getting paid or causing a commotion by holding out, we're forgetting about the player whose first three seasons as an NFL wide receiver can.
Beckham wants another long-term deal even if he doesn't play football again until he is 31 years old. I'm fairly certain that this activity was more than just boredom on an April weekend with a bad knee, as he was enjoying messing with his friend on the social networking site.
He wants to make sure that his name is still on people's lips while the wide receiver contract market is exploding, and it's actually a good idea on his part. He got his Super Bowl, and hopefully he can cash out one more good time before his career ends.
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