Cam Skattebo

Cam Skattebo finished his rookie year as the number 37 running back in total PPR scoring and the number 9 running back in PPR per game — and that gap is the whole story. Eight games. That's all he got before his season ended, but on a per-game basis he was a top-ten back. The Giants leaned on him as the early-down hammer and goal-line guy in a backfield rotating Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary, and Skattebo answered with five rushing touchdowns and two more through the air in half a season. This wasn't a committee back stealing scraps — this was a featured role cut short. The verdict is incomplete by design, but what's there is loud.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Skattebo carried it 101 times for 410 yards — 4.1 a pop — and added 24 catches for 207 yards on 32 targets, a 13 percent target share out of the backfield. The efficiency under the hood is where it gets interesting: plus 43 rushing yards over expected on the season, plus 0.4 per attempt, and he did it while facing a stacked box on nearly 24 percent of his carries. He was creating yards the blocking wasn't giving him, on a Giants offense that ranked top five in the league in expected points added per carry. And he was steady, not spiky — double-digit PPR in seven of eight games, with a floor of 10 against the Eagles and a ceiling of 31, also against the Eagles. Three games over 18, four more in the 13-to-15 range, and only one true dud in Week 1, before the role was his. That's a weekly producer with touchdown-driven ceiling spikes baked in.

The play that captures it best came in Week 6 against the Eagles. Second-and-four from the four-yard line, late second quarter, Giants down 17 to 13. Skattebo took the handoff and punched it in through the left guard — one of three scores he had that day in a 34 to 17 Giants win. Not a flashy 50-yard run. That's the point. Skattebo's fantasy value was built on goal-line trust and short-area volume on a team that scored touchdowns on 67 percent of its scoring drives — one of the highest rates in the league. When the Giants got close, the ball went to number 44, and the points followed.