BEREA Brian Burns Jersey , Ohio (AP) — Mayfield seated to his left, Jarvis Landry to his right and Myles Garrett at the end of the dais.“This can’t be real,” Beckham said, a tuft of bleached blond hair poking out from under his orange cap.This was no April Fools’ Day joke.Welcome to Cleveland, the NFL’s new hotspot.His drama-filled days in New York behind him, Beckham was introduced Monday by the Browns, whose acquisition of the former Giants star wide receiver has triggered wild expectations for a team that didn’t win one game two years ago.Beckham said he was initially shocked by the blockbuster trade — Cleveland sent guard Kevin Zeitler, safety Jabrill Peppers and a first- and third-round pick this year to New York on March 12 for Beckham and edge rusher Olivier Vernon — but he has grown to embrace it over the past few weeks.“I think I’ve come to grips with everything,” Beckham said, discussing his big change in an overflowing media room at the team’s headquarters. “It’ll be one of the best things that ever happened to me in my life.”His close relationship with Landry has helped Beckham’s transition. The pair has been friends since meeting at a football camp while in high school, and after attending LSU together, the two have talked endlessly about being teammates in the NFL.Their dream is a reality in Cleveland.“We spoke this into existence,” Beckham said. “Him and I dreamed of this. This is something that we talked about at 17, ‘I’m going to live right down the street from you. We’re going to be on the same team.’ Everything, and it’s like surreal.”Beckham, who spent five sometimes turbulent seasons with the Giants, said it was important for him to report right away to the Browns’ first offseason conditioning program under new coach Freddie Kitchens. His life is still in upheaval due to the trade, but he wanted to get off on the right foot with his new teammates.“I definitely want to be here and create that bond,” he said. “I definitely wanted to be here today.”Moments later http://www.panthersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-greg-little-jersey , he again gazed at his new teammates — Landry, the sure-handed pass catcher who joined the Browns last year and Mayfield and Garrett, two former No. 1 overall picks who have made the Browns relevant — and smiled.“I think this moment is going to be more iconic than we all realize,” he said.In Landry and Beckham, the Browns have two of the league’s top receivers, a combination that might keep defensive coordinators awake at night.Mayfield joked that his job may have gotten easier.“I’ll probably just close my eyes and throw it and hope one of them catches it,” he said.Beckham said that after he learned he was headed to Cleveland, he called LeBron James and asked the NBA superstar about the area.“He gave me a little bit of advice,” Beckham said. “He just said: ‘You’re going to love it, you’re going to love Cleveland.’ I said, ‘I can’t wait.’ That’s like my idol, so it’s the person I look up to the most, that’s my guy. To see what he did to bring a championship here, I just want to be able to do that same thing.”The 26-year-old Beckham said he greeted Kitchens, who was hired by the Browns in part because of his bond with Mayfield, with a big hug and told him he loved him.“It’s like a love story,” quipped Kitchens, who feels there are misperceptions about Beckham. “The thing that I think gets misconstrued a little bit with Odell is that he loves people and he loves to play the game. I truly feel like he loves being around his teammates. As a coach, sometimes you look at the team as your family Will Grier Jersey , but at the end of the day, we are not family.“Family you are related to by blood. But there is a brotherhood so to speak in the locker room. I think with a lot of good players, they want to just feel that sense of brotherhood and compassion, and the passion that he brings to the field is kind of contagious.”Beckham, who clashed with Giants coach Pat Shurmur and always seemed surrounded by distractions, knows there are those who feel he’s selfish, a diva.“It is just wrong,” he said of the opinion. “I do not know how else to explain it. I see all the stuff that says that and everything. I think one of my biggest problems is that I care about it, but I do not care at the same time because I know who I am. Nothing that is said about me is ever going to bother me because I know who I am.“I just stick to that.” EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The first sign in Minnesota of Latavius Murray’s varied interests was visible even before he signed his contract with the Vikings last year.This season, his responsibilities have reached a new high.That starts at home, where he and his fiancée brought home a baby boy named Major last month. The extra burden has extended to Minnesota’s backfield, where Murray has started three of the past four games for the injured Dalvin Cook. Last week, Murray rushed for a career-best 155 yards to help the Vikings beat Arizona .“I try not to get caught up in whether I’m the number one or the number two,” he said. “I have to be me, and any opportunities I get I’ve got to do my best.”Murray has long applied this wisdom beyond the game, a sixth-year running back ranking among the league leaders in well-rounded lives if the category existed.During the offseason , he made a second humanitarian trip to Haiti with former Oakland teammate Derek Carr. Then he traveled to Germany and Italy as part of a United Service Organizations tour with a handful of other NFL players to meet with overseas troops. Murray’s fiancée, Shauntay Skanes http://www.panthersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-christian-miller-jersey , is in her 10th year in the Navy.Moving toward a master’s degree in business administration through Syracuse, his hometown university in upstate New York, Murray is already a T-shirt entrepreneur of sorts. He used to be more personally involved with the merchandising, before outsourcing the work to avoid being too consumed by it.While his agent negotiated a deal with the Vikings late into the March night in 2017, Murray passed the time on his first visit to the team’s facility with some online work toward his MBA. He’s about halfway done, with a goal of completion for 2019 after he and Skanes are married. That’s one way he has begun to prepare himself at age 28 for his post-football years.“I’m just hoping that I’m doing something maybe bigger than what I’m doing right now,” Murray said. “That’s more than half of my life I’ll have when I’m done playing the game, and to try and limit it to just this right now would be dumb of me.”Returning to Minnesota this season required a pay cut to help the team squeeze several big-ticket contract extensions under the salary cap, but the Vikings have been getting a bargain for the second straight year.In 2017, Murray took over when Cook tore his ACL. This season, Cook has been bothered by a hamstring injury that again kept him from practicing on Thursday. When Murray signed with the Vikings, he was viewed as the replacement for Adrian Peterson. Then the Vikings made Cook their top draft pick and, thus, primary halfback. Murray could have been stung by the arrival of a hotshot rookie, but that wasn’t the case.“He took me in as a little brother, and that’s what I respect most about him,” Cook said. “Most guys could just brush that off, but I highly respect Latavius for that. To this day, the bond has just got stronger.”Fondly remembering the way he was treated by his elders with the Raiders Jordan Scarlett Jersey , Murray simply made a point to pay that support forward.“That was the kind of vets I had, guys who weren’t going to act like they were too good or too old or too big to try and teach me the game, hang out with me, have fun and do those kinds of things.”Murray has a budding family to play for now, too, but his memory of childhood friend Jonathan Diaz has always been painfully close. Diaz was shot to death in Syracuse in 2016, since when Murray’s motivation to succeed on the field has started with him.Diaz would have been proud of how Murray plowed through the Cardinals last Sunday, stiff-arming a safety on his way to a 21-yard touchdown run that helped the Vikings set the tone for an important victory.“We love blocking for him,” left guard Tom Compton said. “He gives you a lot of options. If you’re a little shaky on anything, he’ll definitely help you out and run a guy over for you.”With a forward lean to his running style that leads to plenty of yards after contact, Murray is a perfect complement to Cook and his more elusive skillset.“He’s a great person. He’s very diligent about his work. He practices hard, but he’s got good feet and acceleration,” coach Mike Zimmer said, adding: “When he gets a chance, very seldom is this guy going backward when he gets hit. A lot of those things I really like.”