Adrian Peterson's football career is humming like a precision motor again, and he took time during his weekly news conference Thursday to reflect on how his running game and the Vikings have re-emerged as NFL headliners.
Once again, Minnesota's enduring superstar is the league's leading rusher.
He is coming off his finest performance of the season, a 203-yard eruption at Oakland that helped propel the Vikings (7-2) into first place in the NFC North.
Fans have embraced the onetime pariah again. Peterson's work against the Raiders earned him the FedEx NFL Ground Player of the Week award as voted by the public.