A move from Texas to Maryland for his last year of high school damaged Beckham's options as a high-school recruit, and he ended up at Division III Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Md. At that level, football is generally a non-scholarship sport, and according to Dunn, Beckham was unclear on the difference between a full scholarship and the financial aid he received in the form of loans. He left the school before he ever played a game because he had no means of paying for school. Beckham said he incurred enough debt to Stevenson that he had to take a job to begin paying it off. His next shot at football was at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, but the misunderstanding at Stevenson thwarted the move.