The New York Giants believe there is a "good chance" star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will play in Monday's game against the Detroit Lions, though his status is still "up in the air," ESPN's Adam Schefter reports.
Beckham missed the first game of the season with an ankle injury he suffered in Week 2 of the preseason. The wideout revealed he was initially given a six-to-eight-week recovery timeline. It will be four weeks since he sustained the injury on Monday.
Beckham returned to practice this week and got in only limited sessions from Thursday through Saturday.
Nonetheless, Lions coach Jim Caldwell is preparing for Beckham to play.
"We look at it as if we anticipate that he's going to play," Caldwell said, according to The Associated Press. "We go at it that way. If he doesn't, he doesn't, and we adjust."
The Giants managed just three points without Beckham in the lineup last week.
