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The mother of New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo has come to her son’s defense after he made scary comments about CTE and asthma.
The second-year NFL player appeared on a recent podcast and was asked if CTE was a “real thing,” to which he replied, “No.” He also claimed asthma was an “excuse.” Skattebo later apologized for making a “bad joke” about the two illnesses.
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Cam Skattebo of the New York Giants is interviewed during Super Bowl LX Radio Row at Moscone Center West on February 6, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images)
“If people only knew how many times Cam had to ‘run for mom’s inhaler’ they would realize the sarcasm… you’ll never make everyone happy and say all the right things and people are bound to spin something sooner or later in a direction it was never intended to go,” wrote Becky Skattebo on X.
The Giants player admitted to an “error in judgment” when he made the comments.
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New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo warms up before the game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles on October 26, 2025, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“I recently did an interview and made an error in judgment, which led me to make a tasteless joke about CTE and asthma,” he wrote on !!!”
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative brain disease linked to repeated impacts to the head rather than a single injury, according to the Mayo Clinic. More than 100 former NFL football players have been posthumously diagnosed with CTE, according to a University of Utah study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
Running back Cam Skattebo during warm-up drills at Giants Rookie Minicamp. (Chris Pedota, NorthJersey.com/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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Skattebo quarterback Jaxson Dart was checked for concussions at least five times during the season and even missed two games after being diagnosed. Skattebo was previously fined for entering the medical tent while Dart was being assessed.
