“Things are heating up with Odell (Beckham Jr.),” Ravens vice president of football administration Nick Matteo wrote to DeCosta. “I think we’ve got a shot.”
DeCosta, who had been pessimistic about the team’s chances of landing the veteran wide receiver, watched the rest of “Air” with his head in the clouds.
“I couldn’t believe it,” he said of signing Beckham to a one-year, $15 million contract. “We closed the deal that night, maybe the next morning. It was a crazy thing. Nobody thought that was going to happen and it did.