Odell Beckham Jr. has never had a relationship with a position coach quite like this one. Tyke Tolbert, the Giants’ new wide receivers coach, knows him in a way few do.
“I held him as a baby outside the dorm [at LSU],” Tolbert recalled with a laugh Wednesday.
He played with Beckham’s father, Odell Sr., at LSU, and knew his mother, Heather Van Norman, well while in college, too. And now, a few decades later, he gets to coach him.
“It makes me feel old,” Tolbert joked.
Tolbert, 50, has remained in contact with the family over the years, though he didn’t get to see him play at all in high school.