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“Dex talked to us after that game about handling success and not shying away from it.” The Giants did not handle success the right way the first time around this season. Can they do better this time after a rousing victory?
After playing the first half in Week 3, Thomas has played 100 percent of the offensive snaps in the three ensuing games. It’s probably no coincidence, then, that those were the Giants’ three best rushing games of the season, not only by total rushing yards but by success rate, as well.
According to TruMedia, the Giants’ rushing success rate — a metric that measures how often an offense is generating positive plays based on down and distance — in the past three games has been 48.4 percent, 50 percent and 41.5 percent. The league average entering “Sunday Night Football” was 40 percent. By a more traditional measure, the Giants have been the second-best running team in football from Weeks 4-6 — again, entering SNF — piling up more yards on the ground (469) than any team but the Panthers.
The rookie running back carried the ball 19 times for 98 yards and an impressive three touchdowns in the Giants’ Week 6 victory over the Eagles while adding two receptions for an additional 12 yards. Skattebo became the second rookie running back in franchise history to rush for three touchdowns in a game, joining Charlie Evans, who ran for three touchdowns against the San Diego Chargers back in 1971. Skattebo is the first rookie running back to rush for three scores in a game since Washington’s Antonio Gibson did so in 2020.
Cam Skattebo has brought a legacy to the New York Giants that he has established by inflicting punishment on the football field.
Before Skattebo earned the “Angry Runs” scepter from NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt with his preferred physicality in a pair of plays from his NFL debut, you should go back and revisit the most memorable run of his career to this point – one he chases every time he puts on a helmet and steps between the lines.
