The NFL reminded its teams in a memo Tuesday that no "foreign objects" are allowed on the field or sidelines during game day, a response to the practice of the Carolina Panthers and other teams of carrying baseball bats during pregame for motivational purposes.
A source told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Beckham felt threatened when Panthers practice squad player Marcus Ball carried a baseball bat onto the field in pregame warm-ups Sunday and motioned with it toward New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. while making comments. According to the source, it made Beckham feel threatened and helped put him in a certain state of mind for a game in which he was penalized three times for unnecessary roughness.