Victor Cruz is one step closer to a return to the field.
On Tuesday, the Giants receiver, who missed most of last season with a torn patellar tendon in his left knee, said he had started running routes. He still plans to sit out the Giants' offseason training program and June's mandatory minicamp, but he said he's happy with how rapidly he's healing from an injury that left him in tears in Philadelphia early last season.
"I feel pretty good," he said at the United Way's Annual Gridiron Gala in Manhattan. "(Today I did) some intermediate stuff, some cutting, planting left and right.