Odell Beckham, Jr. Week 16 suspension overturned?

Former New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes says that the Odell Beckham, Jr. will not receive a suspension for the Giants’ Week 16 game.

An unlikely news source in Former New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes firmly stated that current Giant wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. would not receive his Week 16 suspension stemming from Beckham’s on-field altercation with Carolina Panthers cornerback Josh Norman.

While Tynes did kick for the Giants years ago, this is may not end up being true as Beckham’s appeal to his one-game suspension with NFL did not end until 1:25 PM ET, well after Tynes’ initial Tweet.

Tynes could be trolling the Twitterverse with his 12:30 PM ET tweet, but Schefter’s credibility as a reporter seems more legitimate. Beckham could have his suspension overturned on the grounds that he was provoked by the Panthers using profanity.

The circumstances of Beckham’s suspension are odd from the Panthers using a bat in a pre-game warmup that reportedly provoked the Giants’ star wideout. Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver and NFL Network analyst Michael Irvin says that Beckham been a target of homophobic slurs all season and in the Panthers-Giants game.

Irvin told Gary Myers of the New York Daily News that Beckham has been “dealing with it every week.” Irvin added that “for some reason, everybody goes after him with gay slurs. He’s a different kind of dude. He has the hairdo out, he’s not the big muscular kind of dude. The ladies all love him. He’s a star. I wonder why people are going in that direction. It blows my mind. I told him he can’t let stuff people say get to you.”

This Beckham/Norman on-field altercation saga is getting weirder by the minute. While no major credible news source has broken Beckham’s overturned suspension, perhaps Tynes knows something they don’t or is just trolling the Twitterverse for no reason.

If Irvin’s comments are true, then this may play a part in the suspension possibly being overturned. The NBA had to deal with the Rajon Rondo abusive language situation involving referee Billy Kennedy and maybe the NFL is being cautious around the supposed homophobic remarks. This story keeps getting stranger.