Is AP the Biggest Off-Season Steal?

AD would have to be here for more than one season before I would consider buying his jersey, and there are other Skins uni's I would buy first.

...not just injury but recovery from workload, and looking back at last year shows this as well.

Its a great start but far from declaring him a 16 game sensation at 33 years old.

...which flies in the face of last years performances.  The games he was used big he was a disappointment the next couple of games etc... until he got inevitably injured.

To me the early bye week will help but we are going to have to manage his carries after the bye if we want to get him through a 13 games stretch with no break.

Yup said the same in another thread a few days back....also give Thompson another 3-5 carries a game as well.

There was an article around his workout for the Skins where he ran the other younger guys into the ground and practically forced our hand to sign him.

It's a big complex equation and you can take 3/4 weeks of training camp off his mileage this year, but I'm concerned that when he gets popped that there's only so many he can take at this age.

I'd let him roll for the next two weeks with a 20 carry workload, but make sure that Kelley and Thompson are in there and giving him a proper breather.


If we're somehow up by 21 pts, close him down.

Too early. I'm curious to see how he backs up this week after the workload last week. I'm expecting a decent load this week too, given the Colts weakness against the run.

You have bantered this repeatedly as if its somehow "fact" PC, but it isn't. RB's get injured all the time, young and old. Citing that somehow Peterson has a higher propensity to be "inevitably injured" is just your personal opinion and nothing more.

Peterson had the same YPC average as the other "younger" RB's on that AZ team running behind that OL. Peterson led the team with 31.5% of the rush carries in 2017 for the Cardinals and had a 3.5 YPC average. 27 year old Kerwynn Williams was second on the team with 29% of the rush carries and had a 3.6 YPC average. The team as a whole had issues running the ball, not just Peterson.

And since you keep bringing this up, have you ever seen the neck injury that year and how it happened?




There is no way ANY RB young or old could have avoided that injury, being hit from behind. And if you haven't seen his leg injury in 2016 I can post the video of that too, but the point is exactly the same. These type of injuries can happen to any RB on any play and age has ZERO to do with it.

Everybody faces these realities. Everybody plays good and bad games for a plethora of circumstances. And everybody gets dinged. None of your concerns can be definitively set solely at the feet of Peterson's age. Its just a convenient party-line summation; one that disregards the same constants young RB's face in the NFL each and every play (OL performance; fit and use in the Offense; quality of opponent; sheer luck of injury; etc.)

Peterson seems to have a knack for rising above the naysayers. That much is well documented.

Well I saw the leg injury in 2011, and was incredibly surprised by the recovery, but moreso the season he had in 2012.

AP is a gifted athlete...beyond most of the NFL athletes. While nothing would really surprise me...still I want to see more of him performing similar to last week.

Guess somewhere in my mind I am ready to flinch if that other shoe ever hits the floor...

AP will be a great signing but this Dunbar kid is a real steal in 2015 as a UDFA out of Florida.

I don't know...give him two more games to be sure but i think he will get better as the season goes on. He had about 170 total yards and other than the fumble he played well.

Well..this article by Keim goes into his regimen and work out after his injury and while he was unsigned. It is insane..to me at least.

Regardless of how the rest of the season goes for him...dont think anyone can say he is not dedicating himself to his career....not only to maintain but to excel.

Says he wants to play a few more seasons. Would certainly be the FA steal of the decade if that happens.

www.espn.com/blog/washington-redskins/post/_/id/37146/people-close-to-adrian-peterson-believe-he-can-still-be-the-best

A Redskns safety was the one who blew up AD's knee in 2011.

this question has been answered now thru 2 games for the season in my opinion. is AP the biggest off-season steal? > NO..

don't buy into it 72' that something will change, we've all been fooled before.. accept it and realize it for what it is showing you right now.. I've been fooled so many times I am the dumbest guy here, not anymore.