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Fourth-round pick is impressing during early part of training camp
New York Giants rookie running back Cam Skattebo is quickly becoming a fan favorite. His hard-charging style, infectious energy, willingess to entertain fans at training camp practice and the skills he is showing are making it that way.
Trenton Bourguet saw this coming.
“Skat is going to be Skat. It doesn’t matter whether he’s at dinner, whether he’s at the mall, on the field,” Bourguet, a former backup quarterback and teammate of Skattebo’s at Arizona State who is now on the coaching staff, told Big Blue View in the spring. “He’s always just super, super real with you. He’s going to kill you with that smile, you’re going to see him smile and laugh and joke around.
“I think that’s what makes him special is he doesn’t try to be somebody that he’s not. He’s not going to try to act different in front of the cameras or in front of his teammates. He’s going to be who he is.”
Skattebo interacts with fans before practice, often doing something silly with rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, as well as after practice. He hears the fans during practice, too.
“The more support we get and the more fire we get and the more screaming we get, that’s good for us. It brings energy to us,” Skattebo said earlier this week after a scalding-hot padded practice. “And so when I come out and I do that with Dart, that’s a goofy thing.
“I want people to interact with us.”
Skattebo, though, understands when to be all business.
“It’s all fun and games,” Skattebo said. “And then when we get on the field, it’s time to lock in. That’s why you don’t see me joking around when I’m out there and people are screaming my name.
“I wish I could turn around and say what’s up to all of them, but we’re at practice and I got to focus.”
Skattebo, a fourth-round pick in the draft, has not only made an impact in the fan base. He has been making plays on the field, and bringing much-needed energy to a franchise starved for things to feel good about.
Skattebo played for an Arizona State team that went 3-9 in 2023 before reaching the second round of the College Football Playoffs in 2024. He knows what can happen.
“This is one of the biggest markets on the world,” Skattebo said. “If we can get the energy here and we can activate this New York Giants football this could be an incredible place to play football. If we have that MetLife Stadium sold out every game, I mean, who’s going to want to come here? And if we get everyone around the table around us and have the highest energy possible and every day training camp is filled with fans, people out here on the field are going to know people want to watch them. People are going to want to be here.”
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