Giants running back Cam Skattebo's mother slams critics after player's remarks on CTE, asthma

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The mother of New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo came out in defense of her son after he made eyebrow-raising comments about CTE and asthma.

The second-year NFL player appeared on a recent podcast and was asked about whether CTE was a "real thing," to which he replied, "No." He also claimed that asthma was an "excuse." Skattebo later apologized for making a "tasteless joke" about the two ailments.

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Cam Skattebo of the New York Giants is interviewed during Super Bowl LX Radio Row at Moscone Center West on Feb. 6, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images)

"If only people knew how many times Cam had to ‘run and get mom's inhaler’ they'd realize the sarcasm...you'll never make everyone happy and you'll never say all the right things and people are bound to spin something sooner or later in a direction it was never intended to go," Becky Skattebo wrote on X.

The Giants player admitted a "lapse in judgment" when he made those comments.

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New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo is shown warming up before the game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 26th, 2025, at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"I recently did an interview and had a lapse in judgment, which resulted in me making a tasteless joke about CTE and asthma," he wrote on X. "It was never my intention to downplay the seriousness of head