CLEVELAND, Ohio — Odell Beckham Jr., decked out in a tux jacket with the sleeves ripped off and a kilt at the 2019 Met Gala Monday night, talked as bold he looked in an interview with GQ.

While Freddie Kitchens is trying like whoopty-hell to temper expectations for his talent-loaded team, his players are zooming along on the high-speed hype train. Beckham, who’s been working out on his own so far this offseason, saw enough of Baker Mayfield last offseason in L.A. to carve a bust for him in Canton.

“I would say he’s next, but I feel like he’s now,” Beckham told GQ’s Cam Wolf. “He’s Brett Favre — he’s going to be a Hall of Famer.”

With the addition of Beckham, Giants teammate Olivier Vernon and others, Beckham is in a New England frame of mind.

“I plan on being there for the next five years and trying to bring as many championships there as possible,” he says, “turning [the Browns] into the new Patriots.”

Beckham re-iterated his bond with Jarvis Landry.

“I would take a bullet for him,” Beckham says, “I hope it'd hit me in the arm, but I'd take a bullet for him.”

Beckham admitted he thought he’d be traded to the Browns last offseason, before he signed his five-year extension in August worth up to $95 million. In fact, Landry told cleveland.com in training camp last year that Beckham would love to play for the Browns.

He also acknowledged what everyone knew about him last year in New York.

“Something in my gut … I just wasn’t very happy,’’ he said. “It just became not the right fit.’’

Despite the fact he’s only spent about a day in Cleveland since the trade, he’s excited about what’s to come, and routinely posts photos of himself on social media in his Browns’ jersey.

“I’m probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my life,” he said.

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