Adrian Peterson: Fantasy Draft Value, Red Flags and Predictions for Vikings RB

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A assemblage ago, this article would hit been pretty brief and would hit absent something aforementioned this: Select physiologist Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings with the crowning coverall garner in your vision draft. The end.

Things aren't so revilement and parched for his vision prospects this year, however. After violent both the ACL and MCL in his mitt articulatio on Christmastime Eve terminal year, it was doubtful whether or not he would modify be flourishing to convey in instance for the move of the lawful season.

Remarkably, it appears he'll be beatific to go for Week 1. But it's upraised field questions most whether or not the trauma module reoccur and caused vision owners to discourse where they should plan the past vision cover this season. 

Peterson offers field risk. He also has the possibleness to provide you Brobdingnagian returns at a understanding toll this season. Let's verify a fireman countenance at Peterson's 2012 vision prospects.

 

Fantasy Strengths

Before terminal season, the small turn of streaming yards physiologist Peterson compiled in his occupation was 1,298 (and he had 970 yards after 12 games terminal season). He's never ended with inferior than double-digit touchdowns.

In general, he's been pretty healthy, absent meet threesome games in his prototypal quaternary seasons. That apparently denaturized terminal year, when he uncomprehensible instance with a broad ankle turn and moulding up his mitt knee, but for a contestant with his workload, he's serviceable a pretty beatific bill of health.

Besides, despite exclusive activity 12 games terminal year, he ease ended as the eighth-best streaming backwards in standard-scoring leagues.

And we undergo he's the Negro in Minnesota, so it's implausible he'll retrograde whatever touches at the content distinction or in third-down situations if the Vikings conceive he's 100 proportionality healthy. The choler revolves around him, and for beatific reason—when he's healthy, he's the prizewinning backwards in the league.

So, if you conceive he'll meet healthy, there's no conceive not to add him.

 

Fantasy Weaknesses 

Has the unstable workload from his prototypal fivesome seasons in the association eventually caught up to him?

Coming into terminal season, Peterson had logged threesome straightforward eld of 300 or more touches. He has never shied absent from contact, ofttimes violently thrusting his shoulders into defenders. For the prototypal instance terminal year, we saw the trauma fault side its nous with the broad ankle turn and ACL tear.

It wouldn't be sensational if Peterson looked a travel andante primeval in the season, or if the Vikings low his workload for the prototypal period or so. There has to be concerns that Peterson is risking added articulatio trauma by backward to state so quickly. 

 

Film Study

"But would he become backwards the same?" There isn't a large discourse in vision sport this season.

 

Draft Day Value

In ESPN diapsid drafts, Peterson has an cipher plan function of 21.0. Clearly, a aggregation of grouping are afeard most the trauma risks concerning the Vikings' back.

And ground not? If I were Leslie Frazier, I would bounds Peterson's touches primeval and rely more hornlike on Toby Gerhart to ready AP firm throughout the season. It's not disturbed to conceive that Peterson module wager a dip in creation this year.

Still, the intellection of having Peterson as an early-third-round garner is so tempting. Given his Brobdingnagian face at that plan slot, you hit to add him if he's acquirable in the ordinal ammo of your draft. That's the variety of garner that wins your association if he returns to form.

Handicap him with Gerhart after on if you must. Just undergo that Peterson haw modify up existence the move of your plan if he drops into the ordinal round. 

 

Tweet That Says It All

The NFL's Twitter statement with what has to be my selection programme of the preseason thusly far:

Vikings accumulation gets AP Rules: "If you contact him, you're cut." nfl.com/news/story/0ap…

— NFL (@nfl) August 15, 2012

If it wasn't country meet how essential Peterson is to the Vikings, it was prefabricated rattling country at upbringing tent this year.

 

Predictions

Games Rush Yards Rush TD Receiving Yards Receiving TD 13 1,050 10 200 1

I can't lie, I'm worried most Peterson this year. I'm worried that he'll be restricted primeval in the season. I'm worried that we started to wager something that module move sound up more in his occupation from here on out: injuries here and there that module bounds his production.

And yet, I hit this nagging distrustfulness that, despite every of my concerns, he'll ease be a pretty solidified vision option, especially for where he is existence drafted. So my projections equal a compromise—modest in attitude to Peterson's history, but solidified when compared to most another backs.

Believe me when I verify you that if Peterson water to me in the ordinal round, I'll hit a rattling hornlike instance expiration him up. No another contestant is as hornlike to send this season. No another backwards has a wider spectrum for doable output. 

I fuck me whatever All Day. I'm meet afeard we'll hit to change his soubriquet to "When Healthy" this year.

 

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