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Giants receiver Victor Cruz is only nine months removed from a severe knee injury, but he looks better than ever.

That’s the word from Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara, who worked out with Cruz and believes he’s faster now than he was before he tore the patellar tendon in his right knee in October.

“I trained with Cruz for one day down in Arizona ‐ and he just came in for a day because he was in town ‐ and I’m telling you, this guy looked fab . . . I’m telling you. Remember that I said this. This guy looks faster now than he did before,” Amukamara said on his podcast, via NJ.com. “I was just looking at him and was like, ‘Man, how is this possible?'”

Honestly, it’s probably not possible. And Amukamara acknowledged that he might just be feeling a little optimistic.

“It could be [he’s faster] or it could be I haven’t seen him run in a long time and he just looks crisp,” Amukamara said. “But I keep telling him. ‘Man, you look faster. You look faster’ and stuff like that. He looks so good, so polished. He does not look like he missed a step.”

Still, Amukamara’s comments come three weeks after Cruz himself said all the medical personnel are telling him he’ll be ready to go for training camp. Considering how ugly that knee injury in October looked, the fact that he’s running at all in July is impressive. If he’s running as well as he did before the injury, that’s incredible.