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by: Ray Monell
Once overlooked, overlooked no more. No one
would select Paterson, N.J. native Victor Cruz
in the 2010 NFL Draft, and now every team
save for the New York Giants is regretting what
ignorance cost them: one of the most explosive
wide receivers in professional football.
“I knew that I had it within me to be a great
athlete and a great individual person,” Cruz, 25,
told LatinTRENDS on Monday, Dec. 19 during
his cover shoot at The Copacabana in midtown
Manhattan. “I just needed the time to go out
there and prove myself [on] the real stage, in a
real game, where it counted, so I could come up
and make some huge plays.
“I got that opportunity this year, and I made the
best of it.”
Cruz, signed by the Giants in the summer of
2010, had a three-touchdown performance vs.
the New York Jets in a preseason game shortly
after joining Big Blue. The UMass graduate’s
prodigious athletic talent was obvious then, but
he’d injure his hamstring in October of last year
and missed the rest of the season. He entered
2011 fully recovered, made the team and has
since compiled—over the first 15 games of the
2011-12 campaign—76 catches for 1,358 yards
and eight touchdowns.
