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).