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Victor Cruz, New York Giants (September 15, 2013)

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Victor Cruz Begins Running Routes: New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz told reporters on Tuesday evening that he has begun running pass routes. Cruz is recovering from a patellar tendon tear in his right knee that he suffered last October in a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The injury and ensuing surgery have cast doubt in some on Cruz’s NFL future.

“Today we ran some routes and stuff like that, some intermediate stuff, some cutting, planting left and right and it felt good,’’ said Cruz. “I think the more I run routes, the more I continue to do it, the more confidence I build in my knee. I’m just excited to continue that and it feels very, very good right now.’’

Cruz is not yet running at full speed. He estimated “about three-quarters speed.”

“(I am ) doing some agility stuff, some lateral movement stuff,” said Cruz. “Knee’s feeling great, it’s responding well, there’s no swelling after agility days, things like that. It’s feeling good.

“It’s all mental at this point. The knee is strong, the muscles around it are strong, it’s just mental now in terms of just mentally now can I believe in what my knee can do and be able to trust it and move on.’’

Cruz’s target to return to the practice field remains summer training camp.

“There haven’t been any major setbacks,’’ Cruz said. “Obviously I come in sore one day here or there and they say ‘We’ll scale it back,’ things like that. But no major setbacks to where we have to push back a week or two or anything like that, thank God.

“I’m in no rush at all. I think it’s just a matter of this is the process that we’re in (of) the recovery. The plan is still intact. I just go in there day to day and (the trainers) tell me what to do.”

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