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Here is a message to the NFL officials who are just getting to know about Cam Skattebo:

Do not — repeat — do not blow the whistle and signal the play dead while Skattebo’s legs are still churning and his heart is still beating.

The irrepressible rookie running back is listed as standing 5-foot-11 and he is not that. He is 5-9, tops. After what he gave the Giants and their happiness-starved fans Thursday night on a perfect autumnal evening, go ahead and list Skattebo as 10 feet tall.

In a game that also included Saquon Barkley, it was another running back who helped lead his team to victory. In a game where the narrative certainly might have been Barkley returning and shredding his former team, it was a different running back who plunged and muscled his way into the end zone. Not once, not twice, but three times.