Coughlin: Cruz won't practice Wednesday

After learning they'll be without defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul for their season opener on Sunday, the New York Giants learned they may also go without wide receiver Victor Cruz.

Cruz was able to start the team's training camp this summer on the active roster following his recovery from a patellar tendon he tore last season at Philadelphia, but it's been a new injury to his calf that has kept him from practice and preseason games over the last several weeks.

Head coach Tom Coughlin said there have been no positive (or negative) changes to Cruz's new condition that will enable him to take the field.

He also reiterated that the remaining concern surrounds his calf only, not his knee.

"The calf is what set him back. Not the knee. For whatever reason these things are very, very hard to get over," Coughlin said, via the New York Daily News.

The healing of this new injury should be the team's first priority, not getting him back onto the field as soon as possible. Eli Manning already has targets in Odell Beckham, Jr., Rueben Randle, and Preston Parker in line for their season opener against the Cowboys on Sunday.