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A sad development: Victor Cruz's season is over

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

Two season-ending surgeries in two years, and the sad reality for Victor Cruz is all too apparent: He may have danced his last salsa for the Giants.

He came to the Giants as an unknown, undrafted free agent out of Massachusetts in 2010 and turned into a sensational story, developing into a Pro Bowl player who helped catapult the Giants to their fourth Super Bowl title in his second season.

But after a devastating knee injury last year and a series of calf injuries, the latest of which occurred during what should have been some routine drills, he is in the uncomfortable position of having to overcome perhaps even more doubts than the ones he fought through as a rookie.