MINNEAPOLIS -- The career rushing output of the running backs on the Minnesota Vikings' roster -- 3,626 yards between Latavius Murray, Jerick McKinnon and Bishop Sankey -- is 30.8 percent of the man the Vikings are trying to replace. The best single-season output of anyone in the trio (Murray's 1,066 yards in 2015) would be the eighth-best season of Adrian Peterson's career.
It's a new chapter for the Vikings' running game, as the team tries to move forward while Peterson searches for a new employer. But while Peterson's greatness was measured almost solely by what he could do after taking a handoff, the job description of the men succeeding him figures to be much broader.