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Odell Beckham Jr. Asking Von Miller About Buffalo Bills Locker Room

Odell Beckham Jr., who isn't yet ready to play for an NFL team. ... but who seems to be enjoying the soap-operatic nature of his free agency.

Mike Fisher

NFL free agency has become a game within a game. And even for some, a "tease'' of the game within the game.

So it is with Odell Beckham Jr., who isn't yet ready to play for an NFL team. ... but who seems to be enjoying the soap-operatic nature of his free agency.

OBJ, currently rehabbing from an ACL injury, is one of the most talked-about free agents on the market. And if there is a moment when he isn't being "talked-about''? He'll do some of the talking himself.

Freshly baked: A social media post from the standout receiver showing him reaching out to Buffalo newcomer (and toilet-paper expert) Von Miller, his Super Bowl-winning Rams teammate, asking about the availability of locker space at Bills HQ.

“What’s the locker next to u loook like !!!??” - @obj writes to Miller. 

This follows up Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame wide receiver Andre Reed is adding to the talk.

“How would OBJ look in Red, White and Blue?,'' Reed wrote on social media last weekend. "Him and Von runnin' it back in Buffalo. Let's just say we had good convo last night in Atlantic City.”

The two big-name wideouts from two different generations were in attendance at a sponsor party, and Reed is certainly hinting that the subject of "Beckham the Bill'' was broached.

The latest info on OBJ's rehab? It might be late into the NFL season before he is able to play again, as he did last year while helping the Los Angeles Rams win the Lombardi Trophy. Beckham Jr. last year regained his superstar-level form while on the big stage. In the NFC Championship, he caught nine passes for 113 yards in the Rams’ 20-17 comeback win over the San Francisco 49ers. In the Super Bowl, he had two receptions for 52 yards and one touchdown before exiting the game against the Cincinnati Bengals in the first half after sustaining the injury.

Los Angeles - led by Miller, the ex-Ram now in Buffalo - defeated the Bengals 23-20, and there has been a lot of talk from the Rams and from Beckham about him returning there to win big. But now, thanks to gossip generated by those involved in the soap opera, as the Bills fight their way through training camp now (literally, right, Josh Allen?) we can have some of the same win-big conversations about the Bills and OBJ.

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Mike Fisher
MIKE FISHER

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983. He is the author of two best-selling books on the NFL.

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