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Cam Skattebo sits atop the New York Giants depth chart at running back, and the touch count backs that up. Through seven games in 2026 he has started six, logged 54.5% of the offense's snaps, and carried the ball 98 times for 418 yards. That is essentially the same workload picture as his 2025 rookie sample, when he started five of eight games, played 54.1% of snaps, and carried 101 times for 410 yards. The two seasons overlay almost perfectly on the ground: 4.1 yards per carry as a rookie, 4.3 so far now. What has shifted is the passing-game role. Last season he drew 32 targets and turned them into 24 catches for 207 yards and two touchdowns, a real receiving involvement that pushed his per-game scoring to 16 points. This season his targets have fallen to just 13, with 11 receptions for 76 yards. The quarterback throwing him the ball is J.J. McCarthy, running the Giants offense in his second season, with Malik Nabers drawing the bulk of downfield work at wide receiver and Isaiah Likely working as the receiving tight end. Skattebo's rushing role has stayed stable and central; his receiving role has thinned out. Red zone work has also dipped, from 23 carries inside the twenty last season to 12 so far this year, even with a similar number of games played. He remains the early-down and short-yardage answer in this backfield, and the snap share confirms the Giants still build the run game through him, but the touchdown login has slowed, with two rushing scores this season against five a year ago.
The case for Cam Skattebo starts with stability. His snap share has barely moved between seasons, 54.1% last year to 54.5% now, and his per-carry efficiency has actually ticked up, from 4.1 yards per carry to 4.3. That is not a back losing playing time or losing effectiveness; it is a back doing the same job at a slightly better rate. Over 98 carries this season he has already matched almost exactly his rookie-year rushing total of 410 yards with 418 now, and he did it without needing more volume to get there. If the touchdowns normalize back toward last year's pace of five rushing scores on 23 red zone carries, the weekly ceiling comes back with them, because the per-carry efficiency suggests the yardage is sustainable even if the scoring luck has not been. The case against him is the passing-game erosion. Last season, 32 targets and 24 receptions for 207 yards and two touchdowns gave him a real receiving floor, the kind that pushed him to 16 points per game and a finish of position number 37 in PPR scoring. This season, with 13 targets and 11 receptions for 76 yards, that cushion is largely gone, and his points per game have fallen to 10.1, with a positional finish of 26 through the same kind of sample. In a offense where Malik Nabers absorbs a heavy target share at wide receiver and Isaiah Likely works as a receiving option at tight end, the throws simply are not funneling toward the backfield the way they did a year ago. A back who leans almost entirely on early-down rushing volume for his value is more exposed to game-script swings; when the Giants trail and throw more, his number of touches on the ground tends to shrink, and without a receiving role to fall back on, his fantasy day shrinks with it. The honest read is that both things are true at once. The red zone carries have fallen off, from 23 a season ago to 12 now, and that alone explains much of the touchdown drop from five to two. If New York starts feeding him more work inside the ten, the per-carry efficiency suggests he will convert it. But until the receiving role recovers toward last year's 32-target pace, or the scoring opportunities pick back up, the weekly PPR floor is lower than his rushing yardage alone would suggest. He is a player whose role has not changed, but whose usage mix has, and that mix is what determines whether he is a touchdown away from a strong week or a quiet one.
Treat Cam Skattebo as a flex play with real rushing volume behind it, not as a set-and-forget start. The floor he showed last season, 16 points per game on the strength of a 32-target receiving role, is not the floor he is playing to right now, with his points per game down to 10.1 and only 13 targets so far. His rushing workload, 98 carries for 418 yards at 4.3 yards per carry, is close to a full season's worth of work on last year's pace and tells you the Giants still want him carrying the ball. That makes him a viable start in positive game scripts where New York leans on the run, and a riskier one in obvious passing situations given the shrunken receiving role. Watch the red zone carry count closely. It fell from 23 a season ago to 12 now, and that single number explains most of the gap between his five rushing touchdowns last year and his two this year. If that number climbs back up in a given week or stretch, his scoring expectation should climb with it, since the per-carry efficiency is already there. If you can roster him and stash for matchup flexibility, do that rather than cutting him outright; the underlying rushing role has not eroded, only the passing-game usage around it. He is not a bench-and-forget asset, but he is also not an automatic every-week start until the targets come back.
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