Rams Super Bowl Champion Playmaker Reveals Unfortunate Career News

It has been four years since the Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl, but they still roster several players from that team. One player no longer on the Rams’ roster from that season, Odell Beckham Jr., is still looking for work, but has encountered a significant hurdle.

Beckham revealed that he has accepted a six-game suspension for an infraction he committed last season while with the Miami Dolphins.

Already a free agent, Beckham’s outlook took another hit with his announcement.

Former Rams Star Odell Beckham Jr. Suspended for 6 Games

GettyOdell Beckham Jr. #3 of the Los Angeles Rams looks on from the bench area against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Beckham appeared on “The Pivot” with former NFL players Channing Crowder, Fred Taylor, and Ryan Clark, and the former Rams wideout broke the news.

“Before the season started, we get a lot of blood work. I get my levels back, and my testosterone is below 200, right? And we go to – there’s a TUE [Therapeutic Use Exemptions] program. We’re asking all the right questions. ‘Yo, hey, can we file for exemption? His testosterone’s 200,” Beckham told the panel during the episode published on October 7.

“They said, ‘No.’ They’re like, ‘No your levels are fine,’ right? So in 12 years of me being tested out my ass, coming to state to state, the only time they wouldn’t test me is if I was overseas, and the first time I’m asking about testosterone – in which I haven’t changed nothing. I’m not even built like that, I’m built like my mama. I’m gifted, I like to make jokes. And I’ll be serious about it, because it is a serious thing when you get charged, and someone says you failed for PEDs, you know? I don’t take those words lightly.”

“It bothers me, because knowing deep down inside, I never failed. I’ve never cheated. I’ve never done something. I’m like, bro, I came back from ACL, shattered ankle, ACL again. Like, why wouldn’t those have been the times that I would have been taking something to benefit myself? I’ve always been this person who just I worked hard,” Beckham said.

“Everyone [said], ‘The high school he went to…’ [or] ‘His mom….’ No, bruh. I earned all of this.”

Odell Beckham Ready to Play

GettyOdell Beckham Jr. attends Charity Day 2025 Hosted by the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund.

Rams head coach Sean McVay passed on bringing Beckham back during the 2024 season, so a reunion at this point seems even more unlikely, especially with the suspension.

Beckham has caught 7,987 yards and 59 touchdowns on 575 receptions in his career. He tallied a 9-55-0 line in nine games with the Dolphins last season. But Beckham said the suspension is not the result of him trying to make up for a diminishing skill set.

He also said that, “in hindsight,” he should have accepted his suspension sooner, and that his willingness to accept the fallout now is do to a better understanding of “who I am.”

“It [the talent] didn’t go away,” Beckham said. “Just my opportunity to show it went away, and that’s me being real. And when the opportunity for me to show it went away, I played myself by allowing me to be [disgruntled]. So, then when the opportunity did come, I wasn’t ready because I was already blowed.”

According to Beckham, it was “important” for him to be the one to reveal the news.

“I feel like I deserve that. I feel like I’ve earned that. I’ve earned my stripes to be able to speak my truth and not hide from nothing. And this was a really hard decision, and I got advice from here or there.”

He reiterated his previous stance that he is just looking for an opportunity, not the kind of stardom or attention in an offense that he received in his younger playing days.

Beckham said that he had “cheated myself” before, but never “the system,” which added to the unsettled feelings he had about his situation. Beckham explained that he has been in the NFL’s random drug testing program for “10-plus years.”

Odell Beckham Pushes Back on Failed Drug Test

GettyOdell Beckham Jr. #3 of the Miami Dolphins looks on before facing the Arizona Cardinals.

Beckham questioned the veracity of the process, noting that there were no attempts to follow up from the NFL.

“I’m not a doctor or a scientist, but from my assumption, there’s nothing that’s going to help you perform right now, for these five to six hours, that’s going to not be in your system in three or four days. So, why wouldn’t there be some kind of retest?” Beckham said.

“Come get hair, blood, whatever. I never had nothing to hide. It wasn’t even something that would – I took the drug tests, go about my day. It’s not something that I worry about. It’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m nervous.” Never [nervous] taking a drug test. It just was more annoying. You’re taking time out of my day. That was really the whole thing for me. You’re taking time out of my day. I got to meet you here. I’m texting you. Come p*** in the cup. Boom. Whatever. But never hid or ran from nothing.”

Officials will “come test me anywhere in the world.

Still, Beckham asserted that he has “never failed a test.,” adding, “Not once in my life,” for emphasis.

“Everyone [said], ‘The high school he went to…’ [or] ‘His mom….’ No, bruh. I earned all of this,” Beckham said. “His was another part that made it even harder. In hindsight, I should have just taken it. If I was going to walk away last year, I should have just taken it. Had the six games, got punished in, let people let it blown over. Now, people going to go out, get to say what they want to say about me. And again, it just goes back to me talking about I really know who I am.”

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