NY Giants Victor Cruz, Odell Beckham Jr. on Track for Training Camp

By Cheri Cheng - 17 Jun '15 11:29AM
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The New York Giants top two receivers, Victor Cruz and Odell Beckham Jr., are on track headed into training camp.

Cruz, who sustained a torn patellar tendon and Beckham, who suffered a hamstring injury, did not participate in any offseason activities. At the start of minicamp practice on Tuesday, Cruz and Beckham were seen running together and working on some passes. The two receivers also worked with a trainer.

Despite the players' lack of activity, the Giants and head coach Tom Coughlin are not too worried.

"Well, we approach it the same way," Coughlin said, via NJ.com. "We don't have our head in the sand. We know the guy has an issue. So the training room is well aware of that."

Coughlin added, in regards to Beckham, "Whatever the medical people tell me is what I do. If he could go, he'd be out there. [Beckham] works with the trainers. He does some work on the side, jumps over there and does some work with the JUGS machine. And plus, why have him inside when the football is out here? He can absorb information based on the fact that he knows the play, sees the coverage, knows what the reaction should be, benefits from the corrections. That is why he's out here, and anybody else."

Cruz's recovery from his knee injury has been moving along well. He revealed that he is ready for more activity and believes that he would pass the team's conditioning test. Despite how ready he might feel, the goal is to get him back to 100 percent.

"I want to come out here, come end of July, from a personal standpoint, and be kind of ready to go, be healthy, and from a physical standpoint, my wind, just have everything ready to go come July 29, July 30," Cruz said. "Then let the training staff kind of pull me back and let me know what they want from that point, but I want to come in ready to go, energized, fully healthy, running, and be good to go."

He added, "Obviously, you want to push it and continue to go on the path of getting back to 100 percent, but you need your recovery days too. So it will be a little of both, the training staff and myself are working on putting a regimen together that tailors both of those things, so we'll see how it goes."

Training camp begins in late July.

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