Starting Thursday, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson could bolster the Dallas Cowboys. Not in a trade, not on a football field and certainly not in a Cowboys uniform. Instead, Peterson will play a featured role as legal fullback, with Cowboys defensive end tucked in and following right behind him. That's the path Hardy and the NFL Players Association will try to follow, as they attempt to squeeze through the hole Peterson punctured in the league's penalty system.
Hardy and the union will attempt to overturn a 10-game suspension imposed by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing against the league in front of arbitrator Harold Henderson on Thursday morning in Washington.