Overview
- Interim coach Mike Kafka said the Giants knew Skattebo would take part in a scripted WWE segment at Madison Square Garden and approved it as a rookie event cleared with team medical staff.
- Skattebo marked surpassing 1,000 paid Twitch subscribers by chugging an energy drink from a football cleat on stream before linking up for online content with creators including N3on and Jynxzi.
- During a livestream, Skattebo received a call he described as from a team PR staffer checking that he was being smart, according to The Mirror’s account of the session.
- Responding to fans uneasy with his public appearances during rehab, Skattebo told critics on X to unfollow if they object, while WWE’s CM Punk publicly defended the player’s cameo.
- The rookie remains on injured reserve following surgery for a season-ending right ankle injury that included a dislocation, fractured fibula and ruptured deltoid ligament.