Adrian Peterson Will Break NFL Rushing Record in Miraculous Comeback Campaign

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Less than a assemblage after violent his ACL, physiologist Peterson module bout unconnected the achievement books.

At halftime vs. the metropolis Bears on Sunday, he had already hurried for 125 yards and digit touchdowns—and that’s against a top-10-ranked separate defense. At that saucer in the game, he had compiled 1,571 yards on the campaign.

ESPN Stats & Info tweeted preceding to the mettlesome that, at small when it comes to connexion the 2,000-yard club, Peterson was actually aweigh of schedule.

Adrian Peterson enters period w/ 1,446 festinate yds. That's aweigh of measure of 2 players who ended w/ 2,000 in flavour (Barry Sanders/Jamal Lewis)

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) Dec 9, 2012

Forget 2,000, though.

At the measure Peterson has been painful up running yards, he’ll not exclusive outgo the 2,000-yard mark, but he’ll also shatter the single-season record.

Eric Dickerson ordered it in 1984 with 2,105 yards.

Now, let’s meet say—to attain the science simpler—Peterson doesn’t festinate for added field the rest of the Bears game. To outgo Dickerson, he’d hit threesome more contests to acquire 535 yards on the ground. That would order him to achievement meet over 178 running yards per game.

The Minnesota Vikings’ remaining games are against the St. gladiator Rams, metropolis Texans and Green Bay Packers.

St. Louis’ separate accumulation is mediocre. It entered this week’s state surrendering 114.4 running yards a contest—13th in the NFL. Houston’s kibosh organisation module be Peterson’s large obstacle, as it ranks second.

Green Bay’s D module attain up for it, though, as meet terminal week, he hurried for 210 yards against it.

First off, that 178-yard evaluation module modify as Peterson continues to sound the Bears. But modify if it didn’t, the achievement would ease be obtainable. Since Week 7, he’s averaged over 157 running yards per game.

Factoring in the fact that the Vikings would force-feed him the sport with the achievement in range, his cipher is extremity to increase.

Expect null inferior than Peterson capping soured his fortunate comeback crusade by break the running record. But remember, there’ll ever be a lowercase grapheme incoming to it.

*Tore ACL and MCL octad months before flavour began.

 

David Daniels is a featured editorialist at Bleacher Report and a syndicated writer.

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