Odell Beckham Jr. made it clear early that he was a bit of a different guy. I remember stopping at his locker during his rookie year and the first-round wide receiver stuck out his right hand, with fingers as long as garden hoses, and introduced himself by name before I could do the same. It was a really minor thing, but I'm pretty sure it was the first time in my three decades of sportswriting that a star athlete had done that.
Beckham would use that right hand and those endless fingers he said were passed down from his mother, a former track star, to make perhaps the NFL's most magnificent regular-season touchdown catch ever in a November loss to the Dallas Cowboys.