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Cam Skattebo injury: Giants’ RB a question mark heading into game vs. Eagles
Cam Skattebo's injury status is uncertain ahead of the Giants' game against the Eagles
Cam Skattebo
RB · NYG · 24 yrs · exp 1 · Arizona State
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3,679
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#98
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#26
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Devin Singletary A Smart Waiver Wire Snag
Devin Singletary is a good waiver wire pickup due to his potential increased role in the next few weeks
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Of eight use of helmet infractions in Week 7, only Cam Skattebo was flagged
Nine players fined for helmet infractions in Week 7, only Skattebo’s penalty was called
RB · NYG
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Of eight use of helmet infractions in Week 7, only Cam Skattebo was flagged
Giants RB Cam Skattebo fined for helmet use
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Jonathan Taylor trade talks are "active and ongoing"
There are two ways to handle the trade of a cornerstone player. One, talk quietly to a minimal number of teams. Like the Titans did with defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons. Two, throw the doors open and try to get the best possible package of draft picks and/or players in return. Like the Colts are now doing with running back Jonathan Taylor. Indianapolis has officially declared that Taylor is available , via a selective and strategic leak to ESPNFL. Trade talks are “active and ongoing,” per the report. The teams that have “expressed at least some level of interest” are the Broncos, Packers, Vikings, Giants, and Seahawks. Last weekend’s Sunday Splash! report that operated as the “everything must go” sign for the Colts pegged the Broncos, Packers, Vikings, and Seahawks as potentially interested teams in Taylor. The Giants (who are believed, we’re told by multiple sources, to have been pursuing Simmons) are a new arrival. Which would possibly be bad news for second-year running back Cam Skattebo, who emerged from the doghouse last week with 124 rushing yards. (It wouldn’t be a surprise if the Giants offered Skattebo to the Colts as part of the trade package, frankly.) To the extent that tying four teams to the trade talks doesn’t get the Colts maximum compensation, the new report notes that the Colts “would prefer” that Taylor stick around for their “rebuild.” If they really wanted Taylor, they wouldn’t be fielding trade offers fo him. The Colts reportedly are looking for a package similar to what the 49ers sent to the Panthers in 2022 for running back Christian McCaffrey: a second-round pick, a third-round pick, and a fourth-round pick in the 2023 draft and a fifth-round pick in the 2024 draft. The next question is whether Taylor will play on Sunday. It’s possible, in our view, the Colts will hold Taylor out of action on Sunday at Jacksonville, like the Cardinals did three weeks ago when they had a deal in place to trade receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Texans. Even without a deal, keeping Taylor out of the game would ensure that he won’t get injured. If that happens, rookie Seth McGowan would be the likely starter in Week 8. Last Sunday, the seventh-rounder who played for Kentucky last year had 11 carries for 48 yards in a 16-10 loss to the Vikings. And the Vikings continue to make the most sense for Taylor. Especially since they had the best possible opportunity to scout him six days ago, when he had 18 carries for 95 yards and an Adrian Peterson-style 38-yard touchdown run. If the Vikings add Taylor in the coming days, he’d likely make his debut as soon as next Monday night, when the Vikings host the Bills. And when they put Peterson in the team’s Ring of Honor
RB · NYG
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Cam Skattebo says he feared amputation after gruesome injury that ended his 2025 season
New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is coming off his best game of the season, having rushed 17 times for 124 yards and a touchdown against the Houston Texans last week. Skattebo had been unceremoniously benched in the previous game, taking just six snaps and recording zero carries following a costly fumble the week before, so it was good to see him get back to form. Early in the season, Skattebo was running extremely inefficiently and averaged just 3.6 yards per carry over the Giants' first five games. That was perhaps unsurprising when you consider that his 2025 season ended with a right ankle dislocation, an open tibia fracture and a ruptured deltoid ligament. That's a scary injury, and one that can obviously affect a running back's performance, given how important cutting and changing direction are to succeeding at the position. Skattebo said earlier this year that he had considered retirement in the wake of the injury, and this week he and the Giants released an hour-long documentary detailing his recovery. He revealed more about his situation, including that he was afraid his foot would have to be amputated and that he had a premonition about a potential injury before the game. "Before the game, I actually had an out-of-body experience," Skattebo said, via GiantsWire . "We were all praying in the showers. I was holding both my teammates' hands. It almost felt like, when we were praying, my body was lifted out of my own body. It was weird. I didn't feel like I was in the present me. I didn't feel like myself." Once he saw what the injury looked like, he feared doctors would have to amputate his foot. "When I first got hurt, like I'm asking the doctors, like, they're going to have to cut my foot off," he said, via The New York Post . "As soon as the doctor touched my foot, I felt pain. He snapped (my ankle) back into place, and it was like, 'A sigh of relief.' Once I got in the X-Ray room, they cut my shoe off, they cut my sock off, I was a half-second from passing out because I had dislocated it so far that the skin ripped." Skattebo obviously did not get his foot amputated and did not retire, and is now back on the field and looks like the lead back for the Giants — especially after the team cut Najee Harris and placed Tyrone Tracy Jr . on injured reserve. He will need to maintain the improved efficiency he showed against the Texans, but just being back on the field and playing at all is pretty impressive considering the extent of the injury he sustained
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Week 8 Yahoo Fantasy x Arena Club Slab Packs: Joe Burrow, Cam Skattebo among chase cards
Loaded with top performers and fantasy stars, the Yahoo Fantasy x Arena Club Slab packs will be available each week during the regular season for collectors and fans to digitally rip
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Jason Kelce rants, calls out refs over unnecessary roughness penalty on Giants' Cam Skattebo
Jason Kelce defends Cam Skattebo against unnecessary roughness penalty
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Giants to sign RB Gregory Desrosiers off Chargers practice squad
The Giants will be without Tyrone Tracy for at least the next four games because of a hamstring injury and they’ll pluck a player from another team to fill the opening on their active roster. General Manager Joe Schoen announced that the Giants will sign running back Gregory Desrosiers off of the Chargers’ practice squad. Desrosiers signed with the Chargers after going undrafted this year. He played at Louisville, UMass and Memphis over the last six seasons. Cam Skattebo and Devin Singletary will be the top backs on the Giants’ depth chart with Tracy out of action. Phil Mafah and Grant Finley are on their practice squad
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Why Giants' coach John Harbaugh is backing Cam Skattebo's plan to defy the NFL rulebook
After becoming the first offensive player all season to get flagged for lowering his helmet into a defender, Giants running back Cam Skattebo said he's not going to change his running style, even if it leads to more penalties. Normally, a head coach probably wouldn't be on board if his player was planning to defy the NFL rulebook, but John Harbaugh is backing Skattebo here. During an interview on Monday, the Giants head coach was asked about Skattebo's penalty, which came in the first quarter of New York's 27-21 win over the Houston Texans. On the play, Skattebo got called for unnecessary roughness after running over Texans safety M.J. Stewart. Cam Skattebo with one of the most violent TRUCK STICKS you’ll ever see. The Giants sophomore RB is arguably the SCARIEST runner in the entire NFL 😳🤯 pic.twitter.com/Jj6TRvIOgI Harbaugh definitely didn't agree with the penalty flag and he vehemently defended Skattebo's running style during a press conference on Monday. "Skatt runs low. You have to run low. You have to run low to protect the football," Harbaugh said. "You have to run low to protect your body. You can't run in there and give tacklers your chest. When you run low, your head's down there, too. You can't move your head off your shoulders. It's a physical impossibility." Skattebo has already said that he's going to keep running low even if it leads to more penalties and Harbaugh has no problem with that, because he doesn't think his running back is doing anything illegal. "I'm quite sure Skatt's not trying to use his helmet as a weapon, as a battering ram," Harbaugh said. "It's not the way he's thinking. He's leading with his shoulder. That's what he's trying to do. He's trying to keep his head in a good, strong, upright position. But his pads are down there low. He runs low to the ground. That's a good thing, that's football. That's the way you're supposed to run. That's how you protect yourself and the football." If Skattebo starts running more straight up, that could mean that he'll take bigger hits, and as Harbaugh noted, it makes it tougher to protect the football. Skattebo's running style might be illegal by NFL standards, but Harbaugh isn't going to ask him to change a thing. "I didn't have a problem with the technique personally at all, but we haven't heard from the league," the Giants head coach said. Harbaugh has been an NFL head coach since 2008, so he knows the rule book inside and out, but he's just not sure what his player is supposed to do in this situation, so he'd like the NFL to fill him in. "Maybe they'll be able to enlighten us a little bit on it in terms of what they want us to teach, and that would be great," Harbaugh said of the NFL. This is certainly an interesting situation. You have a long-time head coach calling out the league over a subjective rule that almost never gets enforced. Although plenty of players have been fined this year for lowering their head, Skattebo was just the fourth player -- and first offensive player -- to actually be hit with a penalty. As Harbaugh noted, running low to the ground is something he likes to see from his running backs, and it seems bizarre for the NFL to penalize that. The league obviously doesn't want defenders lowering their helmet on a tackle, but penalizing an offensive player is a little more dicey. The NFL does fine players for lowering their helmet, and for now, that might be the fairest way to punish players like Skattebo
RB · NYG
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John Harbaugh defends Cam Skattebo's helmet-lowering technique
Giants RB Cam Skattebo flagged for helmet use
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John Harbaugh defends Cam Skattebo's helmet-lowering technique
Giants RB Cam Skattebo drew a flag for helmet use; coach Harbaugh defends his technique
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John Harbaugh's success should spark a land rush for Mike Tomlin
Giants’ new coach Harbaugh is reshaping the team, leading to roster changes and a potential coaching carousel
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Cam Skattebo on penalty for lowering his helmet: I'm going to keep doing it
Giants running back Cam Skattebo got an unnecessary roughness penalty on Sunday for lowering his helmet into a Texans defender. That penalty is rarely called on ball carriers, but Skattebo says he’s going to keep doing it no matter how often they flag him. After the game, Skattebo declined to elaborate on the conversation he had with the official who flagged him but did criticize the NFL for sometimes using hits that draw penalties or fines for promotional clips. And Skattebo insisted that he’s going to keep his running style going. “I’ll keep that conversation between us, but I will say, the NFL loves to post me when I do stuff like that but then also wants to take stuff from me,” Skattebo said. “I’m going to run the ball like I want to run the ball. And if I’m going to continue to get flags for it or fined for it, guess I’m going to play for free. I’m going to do everything I can to be on this team, to give everything I’ve got, and if they’re going to punish me for that I’m just going to keep doing it, keep playing hard.” At some point, the NFL may give Skattebo no choice but to stop if he keeps getting flags and is eventually suspended. But until that point, he says fines will not be a deterrent to playing the way he wants to play
RB · NYG
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Cam Skattebo earned unnecessary roughness penalty for trucking Texans defender
Skattebo received an unnecessary roughness penalty during the game
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John Harbaugh: Sunday was a pivotal game, our guys took the bull by the horns
The Giants’ offensive line and backs outperformed expectations, securing a 27‑21 OT win over the Texans
RB · NYG
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Cam Skattebo says he's going to keep breaking NFL rules after getting flagged for rarely enforced penalty
Giants RB Cam Skattebo was flagged for lowering his helmet, a rare offensive penalty, but vows to keep his aggressive running style
RB · NYG
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Cam Skattebo injury update after Giants RB feels something in hamstring
Cam Skattebo may have suffered an injury during the Giants vs. Texans game
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J.J. McCarthy, Cam Skattebo seize second chances as John Harbaugh's surprising Giants keep rolling
J.J. McCarthy and Cam Skattebo led the Giants to an upset win over the Texans, with McCarthy throwing for 252 yards and no turnovers, and Skattebo running for 124 yards and a touchdown
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Giants RB Cam Skattebo credits redeeming effort against Texans to mindset shift
Giants running back Cam Skattebo credits redeeming effort to mindset shift
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