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Giants running back Cam Skattebo is ready to play football and take a break from backflips

Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Friday, July 31, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Giants running back Cam Skattebo is ready to play football and take a break from backflips — News4JAX Sports, Nocatee Health news
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Cam Skattebo is all systems go at practice. His signature celebration is on hiatus.Skattebo declared himself nearly fully healthy at New York Giants training camp, nine months removed from his gruesome right ankle and leg injury. But after getting into some hot water with the organization for doing a backflip and landing awkwardly on that surgically repaired ankle earlier this month, he's planning to stay grounded for a while.“Obviously, I do some dumb things here and there, but I learn from it,” Skattebo said Friday. “We’ll see when game time comes around. But right now, we’re focused on training camp, and we’ll keep the backflips off the field for now.”Skattebo alarmed, among others, coach John Harbaugh and general manager Joe Schoen when they saw video of the backflip at Fanatics Fest in New York on July 18. He turned out to be fine, but a text message and some difficult conversations followed.“He’s a young man that’s still getting used to the spotlight and in New York City, and you

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