Peterson Returns, Vikings Edge Jaguars 26-23 In OT
His left knee fully healed, Adrian Peterson ran hard for Minnesota. Rookie Blair Walsh's leg handled the rest.
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His left knee fully healed, Adrian Peterson ran hard for Minnesota. Rookie Blair Walsh's leg handled the rest.
The Minnesota Vikings' star RB Adrian Peterson will play in Sunday's home opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Maurice Jones-Drew saw the video clips of Adrian Peterson sprinting up the slope at the edge of Minnesota's practice field, another display of the Vikings star's fierce determination to have his surgically repaired left knee ready in time for the regular season.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier says he will decide Adrian Peterson's status for the opener by Saturday morning at the latest. It's another chapter in rehab that has been teaching Peterson about what he can and can't control.
Adrian Peterson hasn't wavered all summer: He says he is ready to play for Minnesota in the season opener.
Almost from the moment he went down with a torn left ACL, Adrian Peterson has been pushing to be back in the lineup for the Minnesota Vikings in the season opener. If that does happen against Jacksonville on Sunday, coach Leslie Frazier says it will be "with limited exposure."
There is one thing that dwarfs all other issues with the Vikings in this preseason: is Christian Ponder ready to be big time? And to be there, he has to have great confidence. And that's where it gets sticky.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said Tuesday that running back Adrian Peterson will not play in the preseason as he continues to come back from offseason knee surgery.
The NFL season starts for Minnesota on Sept. 9, barely eight months after Adrian Peterson had reconstructive surgery on his ripped-up left knee.
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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has taken another important step forward in his recovery from reconstructive surgery on his left knee: taking part in his first full-pads practice.
The Minnesota Vikings have activated running back Adrian Peterson from the physically unable to perform list Sunday, with coach Leslie Frazier saying Peterson had done everything in his rehab that could be done working by himself.
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson says he's progressing, still eyes playing in the first regular season game, and has no plans on wearing a knee brace once he returns.
The Vikings have moved into game week mode, which is a welcomed time at training camp in Mankato. But what they know right now is that while Adrian Peterson tries to get back on track, Toby Gerhart is the number one running back.
Prosecutors have again agreed to push back the court date for Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson to face a misdemeanor resisting arrest charge.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has resumed his rehabilitation after a scary allergic reaction that sent him to the hospital.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has returned to the team's training camp residence hall after an allergic reaction at lunch sent him to a local hospital.
The Minnesota Vikings have placed running back Adrian Peterson on the active physically unable to perform list to start training camp.
Adrian Peterson says he realizes the Minnesota Vikings might make him start training camp slowly. But that won't stop the recovering star running back from trying to "fight against it."
A day after comparing the challenges of NFL players getting into trouble with law to troops returning from battle, Gov. Mark Dayton is apologizing.
Gov. Mark Dayton has a theory on why so many NFL players have been in trouble with the law lately — they have too much time on their hands and they have similarities with soldiers returning from war.
Prosecutors have agreed to reset Adrian Peterson's court date to Aug. 6 on a misdemeanor charge stemming from an incident at a Houston nightclub. The date falls during Minnesota Vikings training camp.
Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson is moving fast to discredit the purported circumstances surrounding his arrest early Saturday morning in a Houston bar.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has hired the attorney who represented Roger Clemens in his recent perjury case to help him after he was arrested at a Houston night club last weekend.
Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson took to Twitter to defend himself after a scuffle in Texas put him behind bars.
