False alarm everybody.
Odell Beckham Jr.’s tweet close to the tip of the 2022 NFL Draft that the Patriots had been buying and selling for Deebo Samuel was not true. Nor even shut.
Although Samuel and Beckham had been going forwards and backwards on Twitter in current days, Beckham took issues to a different degree on Saturday when he tweeted that the star wideout was headed to New England.
“Breakinnnngg NEWSSS @19problemz to the @Patriots WTFFFFFFFFFFFF,” Beckham wrote on Twitter.
Such a blockbuster commerce would have come out of nowhere and despatched ripples via the league. The one drawback was that it didn’t occur — and seems to have been a troll job by Beckham.
A trio of NFL Community insiders — Tom Pelissero, Albert Breer and Ian Rapoport — all shot down the “report,” with Breer including that the Patriots have lower than $200,000 in cap house, making such a deal extraordinarily unlikely. Samuel has a virtually $4.9 million cap hit for 2022, after which he’ll be an unrestricted free agent due an enormous contract.
“At this level bruh bored,” Samuel tweeted just some minutes after Beckham gave everybody a coronary heart assault.
He is likely to be the one one.
After the draft got here and went with out the Niners transferring Samuel, it’s unclear what’s subsequent within the saga. The 26-year-old needs out of San Francisco, reportedly upset about his twin position as a receiver and a rusher, however whether or not the Niners are keen to cede to his demand may very well be one other story.
They could determine to maintain him via this season and hope the scenario resolves itself one way or the other.
After seeing what the Chiefs bought within the Tyreek Hill deal — 5 draft picks, together with a 2022 first, second and fourth-round decide from Miami — the asking worth for Samuel is presumably fairly excessive. If nobody can meet it, then it might behoove 49ers GM John Lynch to carry onto his playing cards and hope someone else folds.
Beckham finally apologized for throwing everybody right into a tizzy.
“To Twitter world ! I’m so sorrry 😭😭 I like @19problemz and giving him hell drawback inflicting extra issues! I can’t assist it ! Deeebo information gon break by itself,” Beckham wrote.
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