Odell Beckham Jr. thinks NFL players should get paid more

New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. believes NFL players deserve some extra dough in their pockets.

"I think that we should make more money, personally," Beckham told Lucy McCalmont of The Huffington Post when asked what he would change about the NFL.

The average salary for an NFL player in 2013 was $2 million, less than half of what their NBA counterparts made during the 2013-14 season ($4.9 million), according to Forbes. The average MLB salary in 2014 was $3.82 million, while the NHL came in at $2.58 million for the 2013-14 season.

Beckham reasons that while other sports have more intensive schedules, there are more risks associated with playing football:

I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport that's most-watched in America. A sport where there's more injuries. There's more collisions.

It's not even a full-contact sport, I would call it a full-collision sport. You have people running who can run 20 miles per hour and they're running downhill to hit you, and you're running 18 miles per hour. That's a car wreck.

It's just the careers are shorter. There's injuries that you have after you leave the game, brain injuries, whatever it is, nerve injuries. And it's just something that I feel as if there's no way someone who - even if they did their three or four years in the league - should have to worry about money for the rest of their lives.

Concussions and other brain-related injuries have become a hot-button issue for the NFL in recent years. Last month, a a federal judge approved a $1-billion settlement for former NFL players in a concussion lawsuit.

"Tomorrow's never promised," Beckham said. "So I feel as if that they should all have been compensated for being in the NFL and being on a team. I understand we have more players, but look, there has to be some way to balance that out."