Cam Skattebo didn’t suit up due to injury, and Tyrone Tracy hardly saw the field in Buffalo. The absence of Big Blue’s starting running back tandem opened up the door for one of the backs on the roster bubble to make a statement, and potentially cement their place on the Week 1 roster.
It’s the time of year when a big summer can help players fight their way onto the 53-man roster. After all, look at what a wideout Montrell Washington has accomplished in camp. And this summer, the race for Giants’ RB3 has started to heat up
With Eric Gray, another likely cut candidate, on the PUP list due to a knee injury, it was Dante “Turbo” Miller and Devin Singletary who had the most to prove, and the most to gain on Saturday.
Devin Singletary's preseason flop did little to save his roster spot
Yet in the expanded action, it was Miller who stole the show, amassing team-highs in both receptions (seven) and receiving yards (80) in the 34-25 victory. He also recorded 10 carries to Singletary’s two, clearly signaling a seismic shift in the running back pecking order.
His speed and decisiveness in space turned simple screen passes and checkdowns into chunk gains, and that sort of juice is always welcomed in the modern NFL. And he even emerged as a third down safety valve for first-round rookie Jaxson Dart.
Turbo Miller is BALLING today. He looks really good. and FAST pic.twitter.com/uxW5O3sbtS
— Anthony Rivardo (@Anthony_Rivardo) August 9, 2025
Meanwhile, the 28-year-old faded into the background—totaling just three rushing yards on two carries and no receptions just a year removed from signing a three-year $16.5 million deal with Big Blue last March.
The optics don’t look good for Singletary, as his counterpart was given the touches and shined, while the veteran could barely produce with one-fifth of the workload. It looks even worse knowing that both Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen were a part of the front office that drafted him in Buffalo, and then brought him to New York following Saquon Barkley’s exit.
The silver lining here is that the FAU product played significantly less than Miller, but it’ll be hard for Dabs and company to ignore the undrafted free agent’s breakout performance. Especially when Singletary is under contract for two more years and the team is slated to pay him $6.25 million in 2025.
He tallied three consecutive 800+ rushing yard seasons from 2021-2023 before his production was slashed in half in 2024. As New York shifts towards a youth movement in their backfield, it seems as though his days as a Giant might be numbered.
If Miller keeps stacking performances like Saturday’s, the writing may already be on the wall, and Singletary might be running out of time to erase it.