{"id":205728,"date":"2025-10-11T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:45:18","slug":"dave-portnoy-rips-morons-in-nfl-who-passed-on-giants-cam-skattebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/205728\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Portnoy rips ‘morons’ in NFL who passed on Giants’ Cam Skattebo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just six weeks into his pro football career, Giants rookie Cam Skattebo is making a name for himself<\/a> with his bruising, energetic running style on the field, combined with an outsized personality. <\/p>\n

And one notable sports figure can\u2019t figure out why he dropped into the fourth round of the NFL draft. <\/p>\n

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy spoke about the headline-generating running back on Fox\u2019s \u201cBig Noon Kickoff\u201d on Saturday and, in the process, called out NFL front offices for missing his talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, today\u2019s rant is about the morons in front offices in the NFL, and people think you have to somehow have an official job to know ball \u2014 that\u2019s wrong. Cam Skattebo, right now, he is the talk of the football world<\/a>, not just college, pro \u2014 everything. He\u2019s on fire, everyone\u2019s talking about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy question is this: How does a guy who is unbelievable in college, and he single-handedly almost beat Texas to send [Arizona State] to the championship? He was the best running back in the country. He slips to the fourth round. I am so sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skattebo put on a show in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals for the Sun Devils, running for 143 yards and adding 99 more on eight catches.<\/p>\n

He even threw a 42-yard touchdown in an overtime Peach Bowl loss to the Longhorns.<\/p>\n

Dave Portnoy speaking about Cam Skattebo on Saturday. @stoolpresidente\/X<\/p>\n

Giants running back Cam Skattebo (44) pushes his way into the end zone during the third quarter of the Giants and Philadelphia Eagles game in East Rutherford, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

Though he led the Big 12 with 1,711 rushing yards in 2024, Skattebo was taken in the fourth round by the Giants \u2014 and the eighth running back selected overall.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now taken over as the lead back for the Giants and had a breakout game against the rival Eagles on Thursday, rushing for a career-high 98 yards with three touchdowns as Big Blue won its biggest game of the year. His 338 yards on the ground lead the Giants.<\/p>\n

Portnoy believes Skattebo has been integral in changing things for the Giants this year<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe give people too much credit. I knew Cam Skattebo was a great player,\u201d Portnoy said. \u201cHe loves football. He\u2019s changed the culture of that team. We sit back with these people who collect paychecks and just assume they know what they\u2019re doing because they watch football. You know who watches more football than they do? Me with these two eyes. I watch everything, every game, and I\u2019m sick of people not believing. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou go to the combine. \u2018Oh, he\u2019s got to run this, he\u2019s gonna jump this.\u2019 The guy is a winner, loves football, bangs his head into brick walls, start trusting people like me, Cam Skattebo. How did he ever get to the fourth round?\u201d<\/p>\n

Giants running back Cam Skattebo (44) celebrates with a flip after he scores a touchdown during the third quarter of the Giants and Philadelphia Eagles game in East Rutherford, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Skattebo and the Giants can look to build off their momentum in Week 7 against the Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just six weeks into his pro football career, Giants rookie Cam Skattebo is making a name for himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[6437,10498,49,28548,48,11257,36805,1728,514,82,1276,6998],"class_list":["post-205728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-barstool-sports","tag-ca","tag-cam-skattebo","tag-canada","tag-dave-portnoy","tag-fox-sports","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}