For a significant stretch of NFL history, about 2007 to 2015, few tailbacks across the league elicited fear from opposing defenses quite like Adrian Peterson.
Seven Pro Bowls. No. 12 on the NFL’s all-time career rushing list (12,276 yards). Second on the all-time single-season rushing list (2,097 yards). The guy is a no-brainer first-ballot Hall of Famer. But how much gas does he have left in the tank?
Peterson, 33, signed a one-year contract Monday with the Washington Redskins to bolster a position group stripped by injuries — Derrius Guice (ACL), Semaje Perine (leg) and Byron Marshall (leg). Denver travels to faces Washington in its third preseason game Thursday night for a first-look at Peterson in a Redskins’ uniform.
“He’s a good back,” Broncos coach Vance Joseph said. “Obviously, they’re beat up at the halfback position and he’s a proven back in this league. It’d be tough to get him stopped.”
Between Peterson’s final 2016 season in Minnesota and his split between Arizona and New Orleans last year, he’s averaged just 3.1 yards per carry. A sharp drop from his 6-yard clip in 2012. Peterson won’t return to that form anytime soon, but he will certainly have the respect of plenty Broncos players who grew up watching No. 28 shred defenses. Respect your elders.
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