Cam Skattebo teammate sues star running back over surgery from golf cart incident at Arizona State

Former Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo is reportedly being sued. This comes at the hands of a former Sun Devils teammate for more than $300,000 in a civil complaint filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, according to The Arizona Republic.

Per the report, the suit alleged one count of negligence resulting in injury against both Skattebo and the Arizona Board of Regents, which governs the state’s public universities, after the NFL-bound running back allegedly “jumped up and down” on the back of a golf cart. Former ASU offensive lineman Mattheos Katergaris was riding in the golf cart during a 2023 Sun Devils practice that resulted an injury to himself.

According to AZCentral.com, process servers have bene unable to serve Skattebo — who was present at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis last week — at either of his most recently-known addresses in Arizona and California. That led to the court granting Katergaris’ attorney, Neil Udulutch, the ability to serve Skattebo by publication, a method of “last resort” that involves publishing the summons and complaint in a Maricopa County newspaper for four consecutive weeks.

“He’s been hard to pin down,” Udulutch told The Arizona Republic on Monday. “I have reason to believe he was in Florida preparing for the combine and then I know he was in Indy. I don’t know if he even lives in Arizona anymore. Maybe he’s bouncing around hotels. I just don’t know, so I was done chasing him.

“My hope is that he or his family will retain an attorney and help us out here, but otherwise we’ll have to go that route. It’s kind of an archaic procedure. It is definitely a last resort.”

Skattebo’s NFL agents declined to comment when reached by The Republic. The same happened with an Arizona State spokesperson, according to the paper.

Matt Katergaris attorney: Former ASU lineman ‘ruptured his distal triceps tendon’ in golf cart accident

Katergaris’ complaint was originally filed in May 2024. It has twice been amended, including most recently on Jan. 27 when Skattebo was added as a defendant weeks after the Sun Devils lost to Texas in double overtime in the Peach Bowl national quarterfinal of the 2024 College Football Playoffs.

The updated complaint alleges Skattebo jumped on the back of a golf cart that Katergaris was in during a July 31, 2023 practice prior to the running back’s first season at Arizona State. Skattebo’s actions, the complaint alleges, caused the back seat of the golf cart to break sending Katergaris to the ground, resulting in an injury that required surgery that he still has not fully recovered from.

“(Katergaris) got a really bad laceration, essentially going all the way down to the bone in his elbow,” Udulutch told The Republic, “and it essentially ruptured his distal triceps tendon 90 percent of the way, so he required surgery and months of physical therapy. It’s not like how a lot of the (initial) articles are painting it. He actually was very injured.”

Udulutch told The Republic that Katergaris and his family face significant medical expenses with “still outstanding bills to this day.” The Arizona Board of Regents acknowledged Skattebo’s actions in a reply to the complaint but denied negligence, asserted qualified immunity and requested a dismissal of the lawsuit. Katergaris reportedly hasn’t been able to resume his football career since the incident with Skattebo.

“He can’t play anymore,” Udulutch told The Republic. “He said his arm hurts really bad when he does anything with it. It moves, but it’s definitely not as strong as it was. And part of that could be the initial injury. Some of that’s definitely attributable to the way the surgery had to unfold. You’ve got to cut into there. But he’s not the same, for sure. Everyone’s saying he entered the transfer portal, but he really just didn’t go anywhere.”