It looks like Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz’s first game action since tearing his patellar tendon last year will come in the regular season.
Cruz has not played yet this preseason as the Giants were bringing him along cautiously early and a calf injury has kept him from the field more recently. That injury left coach Tom Coughlin “concerned” about the wideout last week and it doesn’t sound like that concern has gone away.
Coughlin was asked Sunday if Cruz would return to practice this week and said, via Paul Schwartz of the New York Post, “not as far as I know” and that it wouldn’t be the “preferred way” to handle things to have Cruz return to action without any snaps during the preseason.