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Beckham: Trade is 'start of something great'

BEREA, Ohio - Jarvis Landry cried.

Baker Mayfield started screaming.

The subject of the emotions sat between Landry and Mayfield at a podium on Monday: receiver Odell Beckham Jr., whose acquisition via trade electrified the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland Browns. To Beckham, the trade was initially a shock to the system. But once he processed how his life had changed, and once he looked at joining his best friend in the NFL (Landry) and Mayfield and an improving Browns team, Beckham came to embrace it.

"As it all settled in I'm very excited about this and I think it's going to be one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life," Beckham said.