Skattebo and Tracy Are What's Left, and That Was Always Going to Be the Answer

The Harris experiment is done, covered already. What's worth noting now is that the depth chart landed exactly where it started: Tyrone Tracy Jr. first, Cam Skattebo second, with Phil Mafah behind them. The offseason addition that was supposed to change the identity of this backfield lasted two months and four carries in a loss to New Orleans.

Skattebo has been the more productive of the two on the ground this season, with Tracy contributing more as a receiver out of the backfield. Devin Singletary is still on the roster and has chipped in at the margins. That three-man arrangement — plus Mafah as depth — is essentially what the Giants had before Harris arrived, and it's what they'll carry into the next ten games of a 4-2-1 season that still has real stakes attached to it.

The committee approach is what Harris publicly pushed back against, and the Giants made clear that pushing back was the wrong move. Whether the committee is actually good enough to support a playoff run is a separate question. My read is that it's workable if the passing game stays functional — this offense doesn't need a featured back, it needs a rotation that doesn't lose yards. Tracy and Skattebo can do that. Whether they can do more than that, in a game that matters in December, is what we don't know yet.