Could Ravens' Odell Beckham Jr. win award over Bills' Damar Hamlin?

It appears Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is not the unnamed NFL Comeback Player of the Year for the 2023 season in everybody's eyes. 

For a piece produced by Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, "league execs and scouts" interestingly predicted that Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will earn Comeback Player of the Year honors this coming winter. 

"I've heard he looks good, and [the Ravens] have enough other receiving options to where he won't have to be doubled all of the time," one unnamed NFL personnel executive said about Beckham. "I don't know if he'll have a monster year but he'll be good enough to where you say, 'OK, he missed an entire year and still played at a good, winning level.'"

Beckham collected three Pro Bowl nods with the New York Giants from 2014 through the 2018 season but failed to recapture that same form during a stint with the Cleveland Browns that ended in November 2021. 

He joined the Los Angeles Rams for the second half of that campaign and accumulated five touchdown catches across eight regular-season games, and he also found the end zone in the team's Super Bowl LVI victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in February 2022. 

However, Beckham suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during that matchup and hasn't played in a meaningful contest since. 

Beckham signed a one-year, $15M contract with the Ravens this past spring that reunited the 30-year-old with offensive coordinator Todd Monken. Monken served as Beckham's offensive coordinator when both were with the Browns during the 2019 season.

As for Hamlin, he's completed a remarkable return after he went into cardiac arrest during a "Monday Night Football" game at the Bengals on Jan. 2 and recently made the Bills' initial 53-man roster. He's on track to be a special-teams player and a backup safety when Buffalo opens the regular season at the New York Jets this coming Monday evening. 

As of Tuesday afternoon, OddsChecker listed Hamlin as the overwhelming favorite to win Comeback Player of the Year at -275 odds. Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was second on the list at +2000, while Beckham was at +5000.