Victor Cruz ‘convinced’ he’ll return — and is circling a date

Victor CruzInjured Giants receiver Victor Cruz won’t make his season debut Sunday night against San Francisco, still playing the waiting game instead of NFL games. But he will meet doctors the next day to assess how much progress his calf has made and get a timeline for his return, insisting it’s a matter of when not if.

“I’m thoroughly convinced at some point this year I’ll be on that field, playing at a high level and making plays to help my team win,’’ Cruz said. “Obviously you’d want a definitive answer, but I could only take what they give me, so day-to-day it is. … They didn’t give me a time frame, didn’t give me a week-to-week or anything like that. They said it was day-to-day, and…