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3 months after Odell Beckham Jr. forced his departure from the Browns, the broad receiver will play in the Super Basin.

Beckham and the Los Angeles Rams prevailed 20-17 over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday dark in the NFC Championship Game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

The Rams volition play in their home stadium again Feb. 13 when they face the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI. Earlier Lord's day, the Bengals upset the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in overtime in the AFC Title Game at Arrowhead Stadium.

"Everything most [the Rams] is right, and it's done correct," Beckham said Sunday night during his postgame news conference. "It'south only been an incredible opportunity that I feel similar [I'grand] just trying to make the nearly of, and, you know, here we are playing in the Super Bowl, 1 game away from our dreams and just got to keep going."

No affair which team triumphs, the Super Basin figures to be an experience fit for "The Twilight Zone" from a Browns perspective.

If the Rams win, Beckham will hoist the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the same season in which he filed for divorce from the Browns.

If the Bengals win, the Browns will watch an AFC Northward rival they swept this season savor in the sport's ultimate celebrity.

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Beckham had nine catches on eleven targets for 113 yards to assist the Rams prevail over the Niners.

"Odell was outstanding today," Rams coach Sean McVay said during his postgame news briefing. "To be able to get over 100 [yards], he had some fundamental and critical catches.

"He'south a special player. He'southward so smart. He'south so talented, so gifted, and he's brought such a charisma and a presence and really a swag to our team. Love Odell. Really just happy for him."

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In Beckham's half-dozen games with the Browns in 2021, he defenseless 17 passes on 34 targets for 232 yards without a touchdown.

In his eight regular-season games with the Rams, he caught 27 passes on 48 targets for 305 yards and v touchdowns.

In three playoff games, OBJ has defenseless 19 passes on 23 targets for 236 yards and a touchdown.

"[The Rams] take made [my transition to their offense] seamless with the meetings, the extra work, merely helping me to be prepared, so I can go out there and play fast," Beckham said. "[My] very commencement game, we played San Francisco at San Francisco, the commencement play of the game, the ball was thrown my way. They've instilled confidence into me."

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The Browns waived Beckham on Nov. viii later on his frustration had reached a boiling signal. Three days later, Beckham struck a deal to join the Rams.

Beckham, 29, signed a one-year contract worth equally much equally $four.25 million, including $3 million in team-based incentives. He has earned $2 million of those incentives this postseason. He will receive another $500,000 if he'southward agile in a Super Bowl loss, only he'll take home $one million for a Super Bowl win, according to spotrac.com.

Beckham shared the interview podium with friend and Rams edge rusher Von Miller after Sunday's game. OBJ recalled Miller and Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey urging him to join them in Los Angeles amidst his breakup with the Browns.

"I remember everything was going down and I was getting that phone call from Von and Jalen every day, and I'm similar, 'I don't know, man. I don't know,'" Beckham said. "And information technology but was on my heart, and I felt like this was the correct place. I just tin't say enough about God and just staying down and staying in faith. Simply truly an amazing moment.

"Here with Von, this is a brother. We talked about this. Didn't always recall that information technology would really be possible, and here we are."

When Beckham and Miller worked out together last offseason, Miller wondered aloud about them playing together with the Browns, merely Beckham replied, "Don't come up to Cleveland," Miller recently told Sports Illustrated.

At the time, the Browns were coming off a record of 12-vi, including one-1 in the playoffs, and Beckham was rehabilitating from a season-ending torn inductive cruciate ligament afterwards his 2nd year in Cleveland, where he arrived in March 2019 as a upshot of a trade with the New York Giants.

On Nov. i, the Denver Broncos traded Miller to the Rams.

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Beckham had requested to exist traded from the Browns multiple times last offseason and again after he had merely one take hold of on one target for 6 yards Oct. 31 in a 15-x loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, a person familiar with the situation said.

On Nov. 2, Beckham'due south male parent, Odell Beckham Sr., shared a video on Instagram highlighting plays on which Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield missed opportunities to connect with a wide-open OBJ from Weeks 3-six in the 2021 season. Beckham Sr. also repeatedly wrote "#bigfacts" in agreement with people who ripped Mayfield in the comments section of the post.

NBA superstar LeBron James supported Beckham the same mean solar day by tweeting, "OBJ volition show again why he's special. WR1 #FreeOBJ." So it should come up as no surprise that Akron native James gave Beckham a shout-out Sunday night on Twitter for advancing to the Super Basin for the first time in his career.

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The Browns rallied around Mayfield in the backwash of Beckham fleeing and played their most complete game of the flavour Nov. 7 in a 41-16 victory over the Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.

But the season unraveled for the Browns and Mayfield as he played through a completely torn labrum suffered in his left, non-throwing shoulder in Week 2. He had surgery on Jan. 19.

The Browns finished eight-nine and missed the playoffs afterward entering the season with Super Bowl expectations. They defeated the AFC North champion Bengals 21-xvi in the regular-season finale Jan. 9 at FirstEnergy Stadium, but Cincinnati played mostly backups while resting its frontline players for the postseason.

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Many Browns players will be pulling for Beckham to win it all.

"I'm rooting for him," Browns receiver Anthony Schwartz told the Buoy Journal via Zoom on Th. "That's a guy that I've looked up to since I was in high school. Being able to play with him, even if it was just for one-half of the yr, simply the things that he taught me and what I learned from him and how he was to me — he treated me like I was his brother pretty much — so just seeing him in the playoffs, seeing him going off, I'k happy to meet that, and I desire him to succeed. I'1000 actively rooting for [the Rams], rooting for him to bring that Super Bowl abode."

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A 2021 third-round draft pick, Schwartz said he and Beckham take stayed in impact, and OBJ's messy exit from Cleveland hasn't changed the style Schwartz feels about his former teammate.

"Anybody you play with, when I see a teammate, I treat him as a blood brother," Schwartz said. "So seeing how he was in the locker room, how he was supporting everyone, helping everyone, no thing if you were a rookie, a vet, middle [of career], do squad, it didn't thing. He was always there to help and always there to requite his guidance.

"When yous have a guy like that, it'southward hard non to root for him. Especially how he'due south doing now and seeing how he'southward playing, we're all pulling for him — everyone in terms of the receiver room, everyone else I've seen. Everyone'southward been rooting for him. That'due south pretty much what it is. He's more of a brother. He'south not just a teammate. Nosotros're all brothers. That'south how we run into things."

Nate Ulrich can be reached at nulrich@thebeaconjournal.com.

Super Basin LVI

Bengals vs. Rams

Time: 6:30 p.one thousand. Feb. 13

Goggle box: NBC

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