Now that Adrian Peterson’s injury has been confirmed, Fantasy Football Expert Jack Delaney examines the evolution of the Minnesota Vikings’ offense, especially with the surprising Monday Night Football performances by Sam Bradford and Stefon Diggs.
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Zimmer wasn’t ready to rule out Peterson the game Sunday against Carolina (1-1), but recovery times for even minor meniscus tears usually take at least a couple of weeks.
“We’re going through the evaluation process”, head coach Mike Zimmer said at his weekly press conference.
“His heel got kind of planted and the guy hit him from the side a little bit”, Zimmer said.
Peterson, 31, wasn’t putting any weight on his right knee, the same one in which he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in 2011, as he was helped to the locker room following a tackle by Kyler Fackrell.
An MRI exam Monday detected the torn meniscus.
That being said, don’t count Peterson out.
Zimmer said the team is still evaluating all its options, and that Peterson has not yet been ruled out for the Vikings’ Week 3 game at the reigning NFC champion Panthers.
The new guy was sharp, though, and that matters a lot for the Vikings and their Super Bowl aspirations that took a hit when Teddy Bridgewater went down on August 30 with a massive injury to his left knee.
Running back Danny Woodhead suffered a season-ending right ACL tear, per multiple reports. Many Vikings fans disagreed with the decision to let go of a first round draft pick in 2017 and a compensatory pick in 2018 for Bradford, but if Bradford can keep performing like he did Sunday night, it’ll be very clear that the trade was very well worth it.
It nearly seemed Sunday night that McCarthy and Rodgers were trying to open up the run game with long passes instead of the other way around. The Vikings gave no timetable for Peterson’s return. He says Monday that the knee feels “stable” and he is no longer walking with a limp. Also, defensive end Randy Gregory withdrew his appeal of an additional 10-game suspension, meaning he’ll likely miss the season for a failed drug test. However, she said that probably was unlikely considering many National Football League players are able to put surgery off until the end of the season on a torn meniscus if they can play through the injury.
You’re replacing him with: Jerick McKinnon and/or Matt Asiata. Depending on the severity of the injury, Peterson could miss anywhere from no time at all, all the way through to a majority of the season. Asiata said the experience he and McKinnon gained that season could prove beneficial.
“We put a lot of work in during camp, so I don’t think Aaron not playing in the preseason has anything to do with what is going on”.
“He’s a stud. He’s a physical back”, said Kuechly, a three-time Pro Bowl selection said. Now the atmosphere here was electric – from outside the stadium five hours before the game, to right here on the turf, the fans were loud, and the players certainly took notice.
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Zimmer has talked about how resilient the Vikings have been since Bridgewater’s injury.
