It is, Sterling Shepard admits, “still a little weird” and “an adjustment.’’
Of course it is.
As much as players are often viewed as interchangeable parts, some are missed more than others, based on the personality they exude and the aura they emote. To wit: Odell Beckham Jr. dons orange and brown and works in Cleveland. He is gone but not forgotten around the Giants.
“Just his presence,’’ Shepard said recently. “He’s a great guy, he’s loved around this facility. Just his presence, I guess.”
That presence is noticeably absent here, there and everywhere inside the Giants’ team facility, as Beckham’s energy lit up the building the way a generator kicks in and keeps things humming during a power outage.