Most running backs score and hand the ball to the official. Skattebo scores and leaves the ground. He landed one after a two-point conversion in a 21-18 win over the Chargers as a rookie, prompting tackle Andrew Thomas to say “He brings that juice to our offense.”

Then he announced the sequel in advance. “I’ve been saying it for about a month now, I’m gonna do a backflip when I score my first touchdown,” he said, and in Week 1 of 2026 he scored against Dallas and flipped. He has since promised to retire it from everyday use: “Make up something else now, and try to give the kids something else to do.”

Wrestlers get pyro. Skattebo arrived for the season opener in a truck with oversized tires, wearing his quarterback Jaxson Dart’s high school jersey, at 5:50 p.m. for an 8:20 kickoff. Fans yelled his name. He waved.

Asked about it afterward, he cut the promo himself: “Whatever car I’m in, they know who it is.” Then, in case anyone took it too seriously: “It was just all fun and games.”

Before he was a Giant, he was a Sacramento State Hornet with a highlight nobody has been able to explain since. He returned an onside kick for a touchdown and, per his own record, covered the last five yards running backward while being tackled.

That season he ran for 1,372 yards, was named Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year and made the FCS All-America team. Nobody has asked him to explain the backward part, which is the correct decision.

This is the one where it stopped being a bit. On Monday Night Raw at Madison Square Garden, Dominik Mysterio mocked New York’s sports drought, JD McDonagh got in Skattebo’s face, and Skattebo shoved him to the ground. Teammates, wrestlers and comedian Andrew Schulz piled in until security broke it up.

Some people did not love a rehabbing running back getting into it with The Judgment Day. His reply, roughly: if you do not like him having a good time during a tough stretch, you are free to unfollow. Very much a babyface response.

Every great wrestler takes a bump. Skattebo’s came at Fanatics Fest, the summer fan convention, when he tried a backflip, missed the landing and ended up on video, on the floor, and all over social media.

He laughed it off and did not look rattled. Two months later he stuck the landing in the end zone against Dallas, which is the most wrestling redemption arc available to a running back.

Great talkers sell the match before it happens. With a sore shoulder before the trip to Washington, Skattebo told reporters to “just give me the ball and we’ll be fine” and called the game a “slogfest.”

It rained. Nobody won. The Giants and Commanders finished 27-27 after overtime, and Skattebo played through the shoulder for 71 yards from scrimmage. You cannot call a slogfest more accurately than that.

Every superstar needs a look, and not every look gets a good reaction. His opening-week pregame outfit drew a wave of roasts online, including one fan who said he looked like he “listens to music aloud on his phone at the bus stop” and another who went with “high school bully.”

In wrestling, that is called heat, and heat is good business. Whatever anyone thought of the Cam Skattebo outfit, he changed into the uniform and scored the opening touchdown.