Giants' Cam Skattebo claims CTE is not real and believes asthma is 'fake': 'It's an excuse'

Cam Skattebo surely has earned a estimation for being a hard-nosed moving back, but now, it's alternatively casual to spot why.

The New York Giants moving backmost became a rookie phenom past season, scoring 7 touchdowns successful arsenic galore games earlier a gruesome ankle wounded chopped his play short.

However, helium rapidly won the hearts of Giants fans with his Brandon Jacobs-like style, contempt being respective inches shorter, and his knack for the extremity zone.

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New York Giants' Cam Skattebo reacts aft scoring a touchdown during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Well, successful a caller quality connected the "Bring The Juice" podcast, Skattebo astir apt hinted astatine wherefore his moving benignant is the mode it is.

When asked consecutive up if CTE was "a existent thing," helium bluntly responded, "No."

"It's an excuse," Skattebo continued.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is simply a progressive, degenerative encephalon illness linked to repeated caput impacts alternatively than a azygous injury, according to Mayo Clinic. More than 100 erstwhile NFL shot players person been posthumously diagnosed with CTE, according to a University of Utah study, which was published successful the Journal of Neurotrauma.

The big besides remarked that helium believed asthma is fake, to which Skattebo concurred.

"Yeah. Asthma's fake… You're conscionable soft. Just respire air."

New York Giants' Cam Skattebo reacts aft a touchdown during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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The comments echo those of Puka Nacua, who said concussions are "all successful your ear" and "you conscionable can't deliberation astir it."

Skattebo's quarterback, Jaxson Dart, was checked for concussions astatine slightest 5 times passim the play and adjacent missed 2 games aft being diagnosed with one. Skattebo was erstwhile fined for entering the aesculapian structure portion Dart was being evaluated.

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital past month, Skattebo said helium was acceptable to determination connected to the adjacent steps successful his rehab.

New York Giants moving backmost Cam Skattebo (44) leaves the tract aft an wounded during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles connected Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

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"I consciousness good. Getting healthy, a mates months out, truthful I'm starting to enactment it successful the past and get implicit the hard portion and get backmost to work," Skattebo said.

Fox News Digital's Khloe Quill contributed to this report.

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