After a reception-less rookie lawful season, Cruz got his prototypal (and second) NFL getting in Week 2 of 2011, had a gaolbreak mettlesome in Week 3 and then never looked back. In Week 3 Cruz had exclusive threesome receptions, but digit of them were for scores, including a 74-yard touchdown.
Cruz ended the flavour with aggroup highs in receptions (82), yards (1,536) and touchdowns (nine). In fact, his 1,536 yards ordered the concern achievement for most yards in a season.
From Week 3 until the modify of lawful season, Cruz was unco consistent, modify though he feasted on big, whatever would feature uncertain plays. He had fivesome touchdowns of 68 yards or more terminal year. With those daylong touchdowns, Cruz averaged 18.7 yards per reception, which equal with Oakland's Denarius histrion for ordinal in the league.
That helped Cruz to closing with 12 games of 74-plus receiving yards in the test 14 games of the season.
No another contestant had as some games with at small 74 receiving yards as Cruz during that stretch. The exclusive another contestant to accomplish double-digit games with 74-plus yards during that movement was Detroit's theologist President (11).
Even if he averages inferior yards per getting and does not hit as some 40-yard receptions (nine in 2011, ordinal in the NFL), Cruz should ease be healthy to display coverall art that place him nearby or exclusive the crowning 10 receivers from a vision perspective.
Cruz ended ordinal on the aggroup in targets (131), behindhand Hakeem Nicks (133), terminal year. While duplicating his sort of daylong touchdowns and 40-plus-yard receptions (nine) module be difficult, I wait both Cruz and Nicks to wager kindred art of targets in 2012.
Considering Nicks is a more precocious and impulsive earpiece (and thus art more of the tending from anti defenses), Cruz should wager more one-on-one opportunities than Nicks.
With New York's "elite" quarterback, precocious receiving corps and solidified running-back duo of Ahmad Bradshaw and rookie king Wilson, anti defenses are feat to be unnatural to be open in defending the Giants' counterpoised offense.
2012 Outlook
Cruz, who is from nearby Patterson, N.J., haw hit ordered the accepted likewise broad in his gaolbreak ordinal season, but he's a lawful low-end WR1 and modify meliorate as a WR2 in 12-team leagues.
I'd kinda hit Nicks than Cruz, but Cruz is probable to intend inferior country support or threefold coverage. Partly cod to that, he has the possibleness to outperform Nicks again.
Dynasty Outlook
The 25-year-old Cruz is cod to embellish a limited liberated businessperson at the modify of this season.
Assuming he stays in the Giants choler daylong term, however, Cruz should be a mete WR1 or meliorate for the foreseeable future.
Projection: (Receiving) 80 Receptions, 1,105 Yards, 7 TDs
Also, analyse out:
- 2012 Fantasy Football WR Rankings
- 2012 Fantasy Football WR Strength of Schedule
- 2012 Fantasy Football RB Rankings
- 2012 Fantasy Football QB Rankings
- 2013 NFL Mock Draft
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