{"id":19175,"date":"2025-10-27T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19175\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:14:15","slug":"cam-skattebos-giants-promise-in-first-words-since-ghastly-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19175\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Skattebo&#8217;s Giants promise in first words since ghastly injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Skattebo made his first public comments since suffering a season-ending ankle dislocation in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Eagles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Skattebo thanked fans for their support and confirmed what<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/27\/sports\/cam-skattebo-has-long-road-after-emergency-ankle-surgery-is-a-success\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Giants head coach Brian Daboll had told reporters <\/a>earlier on Monday, that his surgery \u201cwent well.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to thank the city of Philly for taking the best care of me,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/camskattebo5\/status\/1982915548356002069\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skattebo wrote<\/a>. \u201cEvery moment I spent in the hospital with family and friends I felt loved and supported in every way. Thank you to the doctors, surgeons, and staff that did their best work on me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just the beginning of my journey and I can\u2019t wait to show you guys all about it!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGOD has a plan for me, stick the course and it will all work itself out, BRB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The devastating injury to the Giants\u2019 rookie had occurred in the second quarter when he went up to attempt to catch a pass from quarterback Jaxson Dart, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/26\/sports\/jaxson-dart-posts-heartfelt-message-to-cam-skattebo-after-injury-in-giants-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visibly emotional <\/a>when he saw the injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37501607\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/44-carted-off-field-tackled-114247902_ea17dc.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is carted off the field.\" class=\"wp-image-37501607\"  \/>Giants running back Cam Skattebo (44) is carted off the field. for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Skattebo was in immediate pain when he came down awkwardly and a fellow teammate quickly called for the Giants\u2019 medical staff to come out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had to be carted off the field and he was taken to a local Philadelphia hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47763348;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37501612\" width=\"872\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-york-giants-vs-philadelphia-114249308_e43440.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo #44 is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zack Baun #53 and twists his ankle.\" class=\"wp-image-37501612\"  \/>Giants running back Cam Skattebo #44 is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zack Baun #53, a play that ledto him being carted off the field. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>In a feel-good moment, beloved Philadelphia sports figure, Dom DiSandro, the Eagles\u2019 chief of security, visited Skattebo on Monday at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and brought the injured Giant pizza and cheesesteaks, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jeff_McLane\/status\/1982883206161662435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s Jeff McLane reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Skattebo is expected to be ready to play next season as long as there are no setbacks in his recovery, but Daboll did tell reporters that he had \u201ca long road ahead of him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s an infectious personality,\u201d Daboll said. \u201cThat\u2019s Skatto. (Spirits) are good \u2013 as good as can be through text. You feel for your players when they go down like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skattebo rushed for 410 yards and five touchdowns this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Skattebo made his first public comments since suffering a season-ending ankle dislocation in Sunday\u2019s loss to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3923,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-19175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cam-skattebo","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}