For every player on the right side of a highlight reel, there’s a player on the wrong one. For RB Adrian Peterson, he was the windshield. For one play, CB William Gay was the bug.
In one of the most iconic runs of his eventual Hall of Fame career, Peterson trucked Gay in a 2009 game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings. Trailing 20-17 with two minutes to go, QB Brett Favre flipped a short pass to Peterson at the first-down marker. Gay charged hard to make a stop at the sticks but Peterson lowered his shoulder into his chest, put Gay into the ground, and kept on running until the Vikings were in field goal range.