Adrian Peterson does not need his kids taking after in his strides.
The previous Minnesota Vikings running back joined within the talk encompassing the need of pay for running backs, expressing that the need of pay isn’t reasonable or worth it.
“I truly feel like these folks, for the penances they make playing that position, they ought to certainly be getting paid among a few of the most elevated paid players on the team,” Peterson said on RGIII and The Ones. “It’s a brutal position.”
“I don’t need my boys to play that position,” Peterson said. “If they wanna play football, be a collector, be an exterior linebacker, do something distinctive. Once you get the ball, you got 11 folks coming at you. Not as it were that, you’re blocking the most excellent players … it blows my intellect. You folks wanna slide the security and have us piece the cautious conclusion. We piece everyone. Pay us what we’re due.”
Peterson got to be the highest-paid running back in NFL history when the Vikings granted him a seven-year $96 million contract in 2011 with $32 million ensured. He made around $99 over his career, but it’s flawed in case he’d still get such a profitable contract in today’s NFL where numerous backfields prioritize committees and paying other positions.
It was completely worth paying Adrian Peterson, in spite of the fact that. Amid his career, he amassed 3,230 carries for 14,918 yards and 120 touchdowns. He holds the Vikings’ establishment records for carries, yards and touchdowns after investing nearly a decade with Minnesota.
Peterson’s best season came in 2011, when he came back from a torn ACL and hurried for 2,097 yards, fair eight brief of the all-time NFL record. He carried the Vikings to the playoffs and won the NFL MVP and Hostile Player of the Year grant.
