It seems Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr is always talking and this time he is talking about how he would like to break Jerry Rice's yardage record. Beckham Jr. told GQ that his goal is to play 10 more years, or however long it takes to break the Hall of Famer's yardage record.
Rice's record currently sits 22,965 yards while Beckham through five years has 5,476 yards. Through five years for Rice, he had caught 6,394 yards. To break Rice's records, he needs 17,490 yards, and if he continues to average 1,095 per year as he has, it will take him another 15 years to break the record.
It looks like Beckham Jr. hasn't looked at the number or thinks that his production will drastically increase because getting it done ten years would be near impossible. If he wants to get there in ten years, it would mean Beckham Jr would need to average 1,749 yards per game which is almost unheard of. Only five times in NFL history has a player had more than 1,749 yards in a season so for Beckham Jr. to average that for the next ten seasons seems a bit dramatic.
If Beckham wants to break the record, it's going to mean that he can't retire early and that is something he has already talked about before.
One of the big reasons he thought about retirement was because it became more of a business than something he loved, but he knows that he has to feed his family.
“I said in college that I fear the day that they make the game I love a business and not just the game I love,” Beckham said. “And as I slowly, surely, seen that, it changed my heart about it. But then, at the same time, I have to feed my family. I have to set myself up for one day when I have kids — like, I need to set their future.”
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