Victor Cruz

WR · NYG · 2011–2016

Born November 11, 1986 · College UMass Amherst · Undrafted · 6-0, 204 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2011) · Pro Bowl (2012)

EPA per target by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2011	NYG	16	1	3	0	3.00	−0.241		0.0	−0.2	−0.00

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2011	NYG	16	131	82	1,536	9	62.6	+0.595	+0.381+0.233 to +0.529	22.5	11.9	+78.0	+2.11
2011 playoffs	NYG	4	31	21	269	1	67.7	+0.708		19.4	12.1	+22.0	+0.34
2012	NYG	16	143	86	1,092	10	60.1	+0.238	+0.247+0.102 to +0.393	26.7	10.8	+34.1	+0.97
2013	NYG	14	122	73	998	4	59.8	+0.155	+0.200+0.050 to +0.351	25.1	12.0	+19.0	+0.46
2014	NYG	6	41	23	337	1	56.1	−0.056	+0.087−0.088 to +0.261	20.9	10.8	−2.3	+0.26
2016	NYG	14	72	39	586	1	54.2	+0.165	+0.179+0.015 to +0.342	14.0	12.0	+11.9	+0.65
2016 playoffs	NYG	1	4	3	30	0	75.0	+0.332		9.1	4.8	+1.3	+0.02
Career	NYG	66	509	303	4,549	25	59.5	+0.276		22.0	11.5	+140.6	+4.44

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles
2011	NYG	16	2
2012	NYG	16	2
2013	NYG	14	4
2016	NYG	14	2
Career	NYG	66	10

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2011	2nd-team All-Pro
2012	Pro Bowl

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2016	NYG	15	762	78.6	–	–
2016 playoffs	NYG	1	39	61.9	–	–

Game logs

2016 game log (15 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2016-09-11	@ DAL	W 20–19	4	4	34	1	+4.3	0
2	2016-09-18	vs NO	W 16–13	8	4	91	0	−3.6	1
3	2016-09-25	vs WAS	L 27–29	3	3	70	0	+6.2	0
4	2016-10-03	@ MIN	L 10–24	9	5	50	0	+1.2	0
5	2016-10-09	@ GB	L 16–23	2	0	0	0	−0.8	0
6	2016-10-16	vs BAL	W 27–23	7	3	31	0	+3.4	0
7	2016-10-23	@ LA	W 17–10	8	5	55	0	+2.0	0
9	2016-11-06	vs PHI	W 28–23	1	1	46	0	+2.9	0
11	2016-11-20	vs CHI	W 22–16	2	1	48	0	+2.0	0
12	2016-11-27	@ CLE	W 27–13	5	1	37	0	+0.3	0
14	2016-12-11	vs DAL	W 10–7	4	1	4	0	−5.4	1
15	2016-12-18	vs DET	W 17–6	2	1	29	0	+0.5	0
16	2016-12-22	@ PHI	L 19–24	13	8	84	0	−0.4	0
17	2017-01-01	@ WAS	W 19–10	4	2	7	0	−0.7	0
P18	2017-01-08	@ GB	L 13–38	4	3	30	0	+1.3	0

2014 game log (6 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2014-09-08	@ DET	L 14–35	6	2	24	0	−4.9
2	2014-09-14	vs ARI	L 14–25	10	5	60	0	−1.9
3	2014-09-21	vs HOU	W 30–17	6	5	107	1	+5.4
4	2014-09-25	@ WAS	W 45–14	10	6	108	0	+1.2
5	2014-10-05	vs ATL	W 30–20	6	3	22	0	+1.0
6	2014-10-12	@ PHI	L 0–27	3	2	16	0	−3.1

2013 game log (14 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2013-09-08	@ DAL	L 31–36	8	5	118	3	+11.4	0
2	2013-09-15	vs DEN	L 23–41	11	8	118	0	+3.9	0
3	2013-09-22	@ CAR	L 0–38	8	3	25	0	−2.8	1
4	2013-09-29	@ KC	L 7–31	16	10	164	1	+7.1	0
5	2013-10-06	vs PHI	L 21–36	12	5	48	0	−3.1	1
6	2013-10-10	@ CHI	L 21–27	5	4	68	0	+5.6	1
7	2013-10-21	vs MIN	W 23–7	7	5	50	0	+1.0	0
8	2013-10-27	@ PHI	W 15–7	10	7	86	0	+5.2	0
10	2013-11-10	vs LV	W 24–20	10	3	37	0	−9.4	0
11	2013-11-17	vs GB	W 27–13	11	8	110	0	+4.8	0
12	2013-11-24	vs DAL	L 21–24	4	2	27	0	−10.1	0
13	2013-12-01	@ WAS	W 24–17	7	6	80	0	+4.6	0
14	2013-12-08	@ LAC	L 14–37	6	5	42	0	+4.7	0
15	2013-12-15	vs SEA	L 0–23	7	2	25	0	−4.1	1

2012 game log (16 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2012-09-05	vs DAL	L 17–24	11	6	58	0	+0.7	0
2	2012-09-16	vs TB	W 41–34	17	11	179	1	−3.7	0
3	2012-09-20	@ CAR	W 36–7	8	6	42	0	+3.0	0
4	2012-09-30	@ PHI	L 17–19	13	9	109	1	+8.9	0
5	2012-10-07	vs CLE	W 41–27	8	5	50	3	+3.7	0
6	2012-10-14	@ SF	W 26–3	13	6	58	1	−0.5	0
7	2012-10-21	vs WAS	W 27–23	11	7	131	1	+3.7	0
8	2012-10-28	@ DAL	W 29–24	8	2	23	0	−5.6	1
9	2012-11-04	vs PIT	L 20–24	11	5	67	0	−2.6	1
10	2012-11-11	@ CIN	L 13–31	4	3	26	0	+2.8	0
12	2012-11-25	vs GB	W 38–10	6	3	36	1	+4.0	0
13	2012-12-03	@ WAS	L 16–17	8	5	104	0	+6.7	0
14	2012-12-09	vs NO	W 52–27	9	8	121	1	+10.4	0
15	2012-12-16	@ ATL	L 0–34	5	3	15	0	−4.8	0
16	2012-12-23	@ BAL	L 14–33	5	3	21	0	+1.6	0
17	2012-12-30	vs PHI	W 42–7	6	4	52	1	+5.8	0

2011 game log (20 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2011-09-11	@ WAS	L 14–28	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	−1.9	1
2	2011-09-19	vs LA	W 28–16	0	0	0.0	2	2	17	0	+2.3	0
3	2011-09-25	@ PHI	W 29–16	0	0	0.0	5	3	110	2	+10.4	0
4	2011-10-02	@ ARI	W 31–27	0	0	0.0	9	6	98	0	+5.1	0
5	2011-10-09	vs SEA	L 25–36	1	3	−0.2	11	8	161	1	−5.8	0
6	2011-10-16	vs BUF	W 27–24	0	0	0.0	4	2	12	0	+0.6	0
8	2011-10-30	vs MIA	W 20–17	0	0	0.0	9	7	99	1	+10.0	0
9	2011-11-06	@ NE	W 24–20	0	0	0.0	11	6	91	0	+1.5	0
10	2011-11-13	@ SF	L 20–27	0	0	0.0	11	6	84	0	+2.4	1
11	2011-11-20	vs PHI	L 10–17	0	0	0.0	10	6	128	1	+2.7	0
12	2011-11-28	@ NO	L 24–49	0	0	0.0	12	9	157	2	+12.8	0
13	2011-12-04	vs GB	L 35–38	0	0	0.0	9	7	119	0	+9.3	0
14	2011-12-11	@ DAL	W 37–34	0	0	0.0	8	6	74	0	+4.9	0
15	2011-12-18	vs WAS	L 10–23	0	0	0.0	9	5	44	0	−0.6	0
16	2011-12-24	@ NYJ	W 29–14	0	0	0.0	8	3	164	1	+11.8	0
17	2012-01-01	vs DAL	W 31–14	0	0	0.0	11	6	178	1	+12.5	0
P18	2012-01-08	vs ATL	W 24–2	0	0	0.0	5	2	28	0	+1.0	0
P19	2012-01-15	@ GB	W 37–20	0	0	0.0	5	5	74	0	+8.7	0
P20	2012-01-22	@ SF	W 20–17 OT	0	0	0.0	17	10	142	0	+8.0	0
P21	2012-02-05	@ NE	W 21–17	0	0	0.0	4	4	25	1	+4.2	0