Smith doesn’t believe Cam Skattebo’s disappearing act was an accident. The New York Giants running back logged six snaps and zero carries in a loss to the New Orleans Saints, and head coach John Harbaugh insisted afterward that nobody benched him. Smith, in a clip shared on X, said Harbaugh should have owned the decision.
What you should have done was said it was intentional, because you’re sick of Cam Skattebo, because guess what? And I mean this respectfully. That young brother can play, and I wish him nothing but the best,” Smith said.
His gripe is that the backflips and endorsement deals have arrived faster than the production. He added that a former Super Bowl-winning coach has the resume to speak plainly. When a team’s RB1 never gets a carry, Smith said, “There ain’t no [expletive] accident.” Harbaugh’s account was different.
He told reporters all four backs split first-half work evenly while the staff waited for one of them to take charge. It was just, when he was in there, we didn’t call any runs,” Harbaugh said. The player himself read it as discipline.
Skattebo said he was “punished” for what happened a week earlier. Overtime against the Washington Commanders is where it went wrong. New York sat in field goal territory when he coughed the ball up, and the game finished deadlocked.
Skattebo has put the ball on the ground four times in six games during his second year in the league. Tyrone Tracy Jr. topped the group with six carries, while Devin Singletary and Najee Harris got one apiece. New York ran 20 times for 84 yards as a team.
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