EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Victor Cruz leapt onto the stage at the auditorium inside the Giants’ headquarters Thursday afternoon in one explosive move, a 30-inch vault that ignored a staircase that would have made for a much easier ascent.
Cruz turned and smiled. Just below the hem of his shorts, a dark surgery scar ran in a straight line beneath his right knee, the only apparent evidence of the reconstruction of Cruz’s torn patellar tendon.
That injury ended Cruz’s season last October and cast his career in doubt. But Thursday, Cruz wanted to eliminate the uncertainty about his future.