over 6,000(!) yards in his career and scoring 75(!) touchdowns.

Like many elite skill-position prospects, Green-Beckham played basketball and ran track and field outside of the fall season. On the hardwood, there was at the very least mild entertainment towards the idea of DGB lacing up for the Mizzou hoops team. In track and field, Green-Beckham ran a personal best 100-meter dash of 10.59, as well as posting a long jump that was just about a foot-and-a-half less than the world record set in 1901.

He’s a freak of an athlete – you get the idea.

Green-Beckham’s back-story merits telling.

Bouncing around foster homes, he was adopted in 2010 by the family he had been living with since 2005 – John and Tracy Beckham. John just so happened to be a footballformally filed against Green-Beckham following the investigation by Greene County police.

April 7, 2014

Green-Beckham was suspended indefinitely by Missouri University for a “violation of team rules.” Word eventually emerged that the suspension – and eventual dismissal – from the program stemmed from an event where Green-Beckham allegedly forced his way into the apartment of his 18-year-old girlfriend and pushed her roommate down four stairs. There were no charges pressed, and the reason was quite literally due to Green-Beckham’s stature as an athlete.

As the former top recruit in the nation and a homegrown Missouri product, Green-Beckham had already caught 17 touchdowns in his first two seasons at Mizzou, and that was with the general acknowledgement that he was only scratching the surface. In one game against Kentucky, he had seven