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RB Cam Skattebo, NYG (2 Viewers)

My league doesn't lock FAs. Tracy on the wire. Had him on the add/drop screen before kickoff today, someone else snagged him as I stepped out for just a minute when the injury happened.

I really like Skattebo as a player, but was him getting injured not the easiest injury prediction ever?. I know, it was an ankle, but still am I the only one that thought this way? I gave him like 2-3 more games max. Sucks, because he's awesome.
 
dipandglide said:
Forget fantasy, this sucks for NFL fans. Skat was different and a lot of fun to root for. Hopefully, he can rehab and make a full recovery.
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Man, you said it. I posted this in the game thread but wanted to put it here instead because this is probably where it belongs for people who are sick from this but click the link anyway. They might need to commiserate. You are spot-on. It’s just awful. We can hope for a full recovery. Maybe the awfulness we saw is something that can be set and then heal so that his leg is solid and he is able to leap and pivot as adroitly and as solidly as he did before this happened.

I’m sick for Skattebo. Sometimes these things just take the air out of a day. He was exciting, man. He moved like a pro—like the best of them, just with a unique style and in his own way—and not a ton of people thought he would. He was underestimated by a lot of people, myself included.

This hurts his fans, both old and new, and the Giants. I don’t like how it bodes for his career one bit.

The Giants have these guys that are these cult heroes from everywhere remote in relation to NYC. They’re like the city's population itself. So many of its notables and truest sons and daughters are from other places. But the Giants. One day these guys are just resplendent and tearing up the NFL and then you’re reminded that the game can be balletic but is often just a tragic reminder of frailty and mortality.

Gruesome. Sucks.
 
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I haven't been this flattened by an injury in a long time. Im a giants fan foremost and I own some Skatteboo, and I'll say I dont think I loved loved him, and think he's a mid talent. But he did so much for this team, was a new voice, energy and identity and I think you saw in the reaction of his teammates what his impact in a short time was.

Giants have lost many guys through the years and injuries are part of the game, from Sehorn to Saquan to Odell to Nabers this year and these things always suck but you accept they're part of the game. Likewise, you know Skat had an injury profile based on how he plays. He was sort of an injury waiting to happen. But not like this and nothing like this was in my mind.

Troubling to me they can't get him home 80 miles to let the team docs handle him and he's going for surgery in philly tonight.

Really sucks
 
I’m really really hoping he doesn’t get an infection. That just makes me shake my head.

I don’t like this. I think I’m forgetting about his career and I’m more worried about his bodily integrity and hygiene.

Get well, my bespoke grilled-out dude.
 
Yuck. The NFL can't have fun storylines. Everyone will be rooting for hiim if they weren't already.

I know it's way too early, but are we hearing anything about what this means for 2026 forward? Potentially, better prognosis than returning from an ACL tear? Torn achiles? Much worse? A quick google search points to the Robert Edwards pro-bowl incident as another NFL RB that suffered a dislocated ankle "with multiple ligament tears". I'm not sure how closely the two can be compared at this point, but needless to say this wasn't the comparison I was hoping to see given the impact to Edwards' career.

Questions that will eventually have to be asked for fantasy: Do the Giants acquire someone before the deadline for the remainder of this season? Do they have to go back to the well in the 2026 draft with a relevant RB selection in the top 2-4 rounds?
 
sushinsky4tsar said:
Yuck. The NFL can't have fun storylines. Everyone will be rooting for hiim if they weren't already.

I know it's way too early, but are we hearing anything about what this means for 2026 forward? Potentially, better prognosis than returning from an ACL tear? Torn achiles? Much worse? A quick google search points to the Robert Edwards pro-bowl incident as another NFL RB that suffered a dislocated ankle "with multiple ligament tears". I'm not sure how closely the two can be compared at this point, but needless to say this wasn't the comparison I was hoping to see given the impact to Edwards' career.

Questions that will eventually have to be asked for fantasy: Do the Giants acquire someone before the deadline for the remainder of this season? Do they have to go back to the well in the 2026 draft with a relevant RB selection in the top 2-4 rounds?
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It was brutal and my gut reaction was that it was just . . . whatever, I'm not a doctor. At all. We'll find out when we find out. That sort of adds to the misery of it.

I don't know what they'll do at RB. I roster Tracy in dynasty, which is why I was talking about Skattebo before the year, and not always positively, but not really because of Tracy, if that makes sense—I try with all my power to be both fair and for full disclosure so that people can judge whether it's me being biased or not. I'm generally harder on the guys I roster than not. Anyway, Tracy was doing really well last year and their line got banged up, and he didn't do as well after that. It was tough sledding and he hurt his ankle at one point, which reduced his productivity. I don't think PFF was ever enamored of him in terms of grades or secondary stats. I was much more impressed last year than I am this year, if that makes sense, and I'm not sure what really happened. I don't know how the Giants view him nor do I know what they will do at the deadline. I think the draft is another year of wondering if they will or won't, and it probably will help to know who's going to be doing the drafting. I don't see this crew making it intact, but weirder things have happened and this draft was really good for Schoen.

So there you go. One reference point.
 
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rockaction said:
sushinsky4tsar said:
Yuck. The NFL can't have fun storylines. Everyone will be rooting for hiim if they weren't already.

I know it's way too early, but are we hearing anything about what this means for 2026 forward? Potentially, better prognosis than returning from an ACL tear? Torn achiles? Much worse? A quick google search points to the Robert Edwards pro-bowl incident as another NFL RB that suffered a dislocated ankle "with multiple ligament tears". I'm not sure how closely the two can be compared at this point, but needless to say this wasn't the comparison I was hoping to see given the impact to Edwards' career.

Questions that will eventually have to be asked for fantasy: Do the Giants acquire someone before the deadline for the remainder of this season? Do they have to go back to the well in the 2026 draft with a relevant RB selection in the top 2-4 rounds?
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It was brutal and my gut reaction was that it was just . . . whatever, I'm not a doctor. At all. We'll find out when we find out. That sort of adds to the misery of it.

I don't know what they'll do at RB. I roster Tracy in dynasty, which is why I was talking about Skattebo before the year, and not always positively, but not really because of Tracy, if that makes sense—I try with all my power to be both fair and for full disclosure so that people can judge whether it's me or not. He was doing really well and their line got banged up last year and he didn't do as well after. I don't think PFF was ever enamored of him in terms of grades or secondary stats. I was much more impressed last year than I am this year, if that makes sense, and I'm not sure what really happened. I don't know how they view him or what they will do at the deadline. I think the draft is another year of wondering if they will or won't, and it probably will help to know who's going to be doing the drafting. I don't see this crew making it intact, but weirder things have happened and this draft was really good for Schoen.

So there you go. One reference point.
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Yeah, that's really where we're at. Hoping for zero complications, 100% full recovery, and a runway that's left wide open for him to pick up exactly where he left off once he gets back. Sadly, that's not how these usually work out, but I guess it'll make for that much better of a storyline when he breaks the odds and comes back.

I'm part of the 11/12 that wished he was on my dynasty team. **I drafted him at 2.3, but made the mistake of thinking 32 NFL teams knew what they were doing passing on him in the first 3 rounds. I traded him with Kincaid to get Tetairoa following his first productive fantasy game, which also coincided with the Tracy injury. Obviously, this turned out to be selling short, nowhere near the peak that Skattebo mania reached in the following weeks.**

No real point in trying to get ahead of anything since the Skattebo manager is probably nowhere near a point of considering a trade for weeks, if ever. If they're even going to consider it, it's under the assumption he comes back 100% of where he left off, which means there's probably not a feasible buy window for this season (or at least not one that would be shrewd). If he returns unphased, it's probably going to benefit the same folks who have enjoyed the spoils of this run.
 
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sushinsky4tsar said:
Sold on the Tracy injury spike, which was nowhere near the peak that he soared. No real point in trying to get ahead of anything since the Skattebo manager is probably nowhere near a point of considering a trade for weeks, if ever. If they're even going to consider it, it's under the assumption he comes back 100% of where he left off, which means there's probably not a feasible buy window for this season (or at least not one that would be shrewd). If he returns unphased, it's probably going to benefit the same folks who have enjoyed the spoils of this run.
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I'm a little confused by that first sentence and I write like that also (omitting the subject), which I need to stop doing. I'm flummoxed and I've tried to read it about five times. Who sold? And did they sell Tracy or Skattebo, and when? I'm clueless.

I get the sentences after that—at least I think I do. Nobody is getting a discount on Skattebo this season post-injury because nobody is ready to emotionally deal him yet, and if they are they're selling him as if he went on vacation to Cancun instead of what we all saw, and that mindset will run pretty much through the offseason and into next year, which is when he's supposed to come back, and if he lives up to that 100% expectation, then they wouldn't deal him anyway and he'll benefit them in the end.

I'm not positive that's true of everybody but it's certainly firmly in Occam's territory.
 
LawFitz said:
Absolutely Nothing said:
Starting Skat over Barkley, feeling gross about it but I have to teach Saquon a lesson after the mediocre production we've seen. Maybe it'll light a fire under him- win/win regardless.
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Don't do it. You will single handedly jinx both players into opposite returns. There are better ways to motivate.

#StaycalmBarkley
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You tried to warn me. Sorry everybody...

LawFitz, your prophetic powers are noted.
 
Absolutely Nothing said:
LawFitz said:
Absolutely Nothing said:
Starting Skat over Barkley, feeling gross about it but I have to teach Saquon a lesson after the mediocre production we've seen. Maybe it'll light a fire under him- win/win regardless.
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Don't do it. You will single handedly jinx both players into opposite returns. There are better ways to motivate.

#StaycalmBarkley
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You tried to warn me. Sorry everybody...

LawFitz, your prophetic powers are noted.
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I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle...
 
smbkrypt24 said:
zamboni said:
Faust said:
'All went well': Giants' Skattebo has surgery on dislocated ankle
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Good to hear, but does surgery ever not go well?
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I think your question is valid at this point. The answer is yes surgery may not go well, but to answer your question at this point is no one would know that at this point unless it was a terrible surgeon/procedure.
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That was my point - you’ll never hear the surgery didn’t go well right after the fact. If it turns out later on that a guy didn’t recover well, that’s a different story - not as if the surgeon got his online medical degree from the University of Tijuana or something.
 
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