The Giants will close out their offseason schedule without either of their top wide receivers on the practice field, but there’s optimism about having both players ready to go for training camp.
Odell Beckham continues to sit out as a result of a hamstring injury that surfaced a few weeks ago. Beckham and the team have downplayed both the severity of the injury and any relationship to the injury that kept Beckham out for the first four games of last season, but caution is the order of the day now and coach Tom Coughlin said that would continue to be the case.
“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.”
There wasn’t any question about Victor Cruz’s minicamp status. Cruz’s rehab from a torn patellar tendon always had him targeting training camp, although the wideout said he’s ready for more activity now. Cruz said he’d pass the team’s conditioning test if he took it today and that he plans to be ready for everything when it is actually time to take that test.
“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.”
Beckham and Cruz played together briefly last season, but Cruz was lost to his knee injury before Beckham fully broke out. Having both of them healthy at the same time should mean good things for the Giants passing game in the fall.
