Kelvin Benjamin Rips Joe Judge After Rumors He Was Cut For Stealing Food Circulated The Web

Former wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin was going to give it a go in Giants Training Camp as a tight end to try to revitalize his career. It didn’t work.

Before even being in camp for a week, Benjamin was cut on Wednesday. And the rumor (started by a troll account and believed by actual reporters) was that he was stealing food from the Giants facility.

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Kelvin Benjamin Rumored To Have Been Cut By The Giants For Stealing Food From The Team’s Facilityhttps://t.co/rM2jJSZCof

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Obviously, this report isn’t true. But Kelvin Benjamin did show up to Training Camp overweight, and that played into the teams’ decision.

Shortly after he was cut, Benjamin tore in Giants head coach Joe Judge.

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Kelvin Benjamin on Joe Judge:

"I have a perspective on Joe Judge. He’s not a coach that can ever win a Super Bowl because he sits there and cusses all day. You can tell he’s one-sided about everything. He’s a know-it-all. That’s not how it’s supposed to work." https://t.co/gpKpDhwz71

— Zack Rosenblatt (@ZackBlatt) July 29, 2021

“It was just like they were trying to sabotage me to get me out of there,” Benjamin told NJ Advance Media in a phone interview on Wednesday night.

Kelvin Benjamin thinks that Joe Judge had it out for him since day one.

“I just felt like from Day 1, once I stepped on the field, once I put on the colors, he never liked me,” Benjamin said. “He didn’t even want me there.

“I don’t want to bash anyone, but I just felt like Joe has had it out to get me since I walked into that team building,” Benjamin said. “It never felt right. The guy never even had a conversation with me until the day they signed me.”

Kelvin Benjamin was making the switch to tight end, so he felt he didn’t have to lose the weight being asked of him by the Giants organization.

Judge “was like: ‘We’re gonna fine you for being 17 pounds overweight.’ I was like: ‘How are you going to do that?’” Benjamin said. “I said: ‘So you want me to be a smaller tight end than when I played wide receiver.’ He had nothing to say. He quieted down.”

Kelvin Benjamin will now try to catch on with another team. Let’s just hope whoever takes a chance on him doesn’t ask him to lose the weight.

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