Odell Beckham injured his left ankle for the second time in seven weeks, and this one will almost certainly end his season.

Beckham went down on an attempted pass reception, and his ankle got caught under the defender. His ankle pointed west but his knee pointed north.

By video, this appears to be a symdesmotic ligament tear and likely fibula fracture.

Full analysis coming on https://t.co/dFDT8os6QG but @Giants will lose more than the game. Much worse left ankle injury this time for #OBJ pic.twitter.com/UjtuUj7okT — David J. Chao, MD (@ProFootballDoc) October 8, 2017


Beckham will require surgery and won’t be back until 2018.

This is similar to the injury that ended Seattle running back Chris Carson’s season last week and also the 2016 campaigns of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr and Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota.

Beckham suffered a high ankle sprain on Aug. 21 and missed the season opener. He aggravated that injury last week.

This is much worse. It appeared to be severe enough that the ligament is torn completely and he likely suffered a fibula fracture.


This is not an aggravation of the original injury.

It did not appear the Giants medical staff rushed Beckham back, as he was running well.