The NFL Needs Victor Cruz Back

October 30, 2015   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

Will Victor Cruz ever be great again?
He's been gone so long, it's easy to forget he ever was. He was. Victor Cruz was once unstoppable.      
Think back to 2011. He was one of the most dominant forces in the sport. He was impossible to cover, a combination of speed and precision deep-route running. Remember the 99-yard touchdown? In the second-to-last game of the season, with the Giants needing every point as they pushed for the playoffs? He had 164 yards in that game. Remember what he did the next game? Against Dallas? With the playoffs at stake? He had 178 yards.
Cruz finished that year with nine touchdowns and 1,536 yards on just 82 catches and was a catalyst yet again in the NFC title game, with 10 catches for 142 yards.
He was that good. He was better than good. Great.
Then, the injuries came, and this is a common story in the long history of a violent sport. A hot start, a promising career and then the body fails. There was the torn right ...

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