New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is ready and raring to take on the 2026 season after a rookie campaign cut short by a gruesome injury.
The Big Blue RB was asked during Thursday's edition of "The NFL Report," which streams at 7 p.m. ET on NFL Channel, whether he felt fully back to being himself following the injury.
"I'm not back to being me. I'm back to being a better me," he responded in an interview with Andrew Siciliano. "I think you're going to see a little bit different me this year. Obviously, you're going to see crazy, physical, hard-nosed tough football. But I think you're going to see a little more. You only got to see really only five full games of me playing football. You're going to see a little more from me, and I think I'm going to take that next step into being able to play football in this league and show people that I'm built for this."
Skattebo appeared in eight games in 2025, making five starts. He rushed for 410 yards with five rushing scores on 101 carries and added 24 catches for 207 yards and two more TDs.
When the Giants began using the rugged runner as their primary back, starting in Week 4, it, along with Jaxson Dart's emergence, helped jumpstart the Big Blue offense. It came to an abrupt end with a gruesome leg injury in Week 8.
If healthy opening the 2026 season, Skattebo profiles as the Giants' lead back under new offensive coordinator Matt Nagy.
Known for his bruising competitiveness and sometimes goofy, high-energy personality -- compared by teammate Jameis Winston to Disney's Stitch -- Skattebo doesn't plan to dial back coming off injury.
"I don't ever feel the need to prove them right," he said when asked by Siciliano if he ever feels pressure to feed into his "crazy" narrative.
"But I do think that I feel the need to allow them to enjoy it because I know they get to laugh at it. They get to talk about it to their friends and enjoy the moment. There's moments that I'm giving to people that people don't realize that they're going to look back at and they'll be like, 'Holy crap, remember when Skat did this?' as a Giants fan. I'm going to continue to give people moments to laugh at, moments to think about. At the end of the day, they're going to know who I really am when this is all said and done and what I'm about and who I like to be as a person outside of football."
