{"id":43225,"date":"2025-05-12T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/43225\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:12:09","slug":"if-people-want-to-sleep-they-can-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/43225\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If people want to sleep, they can sleep’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From folk hero at Arizona State to rookie in the Big Apple, Cam Skattebo<\/a> is ready to prove himself all over again.<\/p>\n

A fifth-place finisher in Heisman Trophy voting last season, Skattebo is fresh off a collegiate campaign in which he tallied 2,316 yards from scrimmage with 24 touchdowns. Those numbers, however prolific, mean nothing for what he might accomplish with the New York Giants.<\/p>\n

“How many snaps of the NFL have you seen me play? Zero, right? I’ve proved nothing,” Skatebo said Friday during rookie minicamp, per team transcript. “I’ve proved what I am in college, but I’ve proved nothing at this level. So now where I’m at, I have to prove myself and if that’s for five years or if that’s for 10 years, I’m going to continue to prove myself.”<\/p>\n

As a Day 3 pick, selected No. 105 overall in the draft’s fourth round, Skattebo’s outlook is exactly what he needs as he begins his hopeful voyage up Big Blue’s depth chart.<\/p>\n

He joins a RB room led by Tyrone Tracy Jr.<\/a>, who as a fifth-round rookie last year eventually usurped Devin Singletary<\/a> as the team’s top runner, posting 839 rushing yards and five touchdowns with another 284 receiving yards and a score on 38 catches.<\/p>\n

Singletary, a sure runner who perhaps lacks the bells and whistles of some other ball-carriers, could also factor into the Giants’ plans on the ground, but it is enticing to envision a young duo of Tracy and Skattebo laying waste to opposing defenses.<\/p>\n

“He’s a really fast running back and there’s nothing about his game that you can take away from,” Skattebo said of Tracy when asked about their potential one-two punch. “He might be a little faster than me, so if you want to call it thunder and lightning, go ahead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From folk hero at Arizona State to rookie in the Big Apple, Cam Skattebo is ready to prove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[1227,746,7,519,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-43225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-cam-skattebo","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-no-minute","19":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}