The Vikings are looking for ways to part with superstar runner
Adrian Peterson sooner rather than later. Peterson is 29 and when backs hit 30, their production usually drops off precipitously. Backs age in dog years, and despite Peterson’s adamantium bone structure, he isn’t impervious to aging. The contract situation is also brutal.
Peterson will receive a base salary of $11.75 million in 2014, then $12.75 million in 2015. In 2017, it will climb to $15.75 million
That is simply an impossible salary structure to pay a player in today’s game, where the running back position has been greatly devalued.
“My person opinion,” said one AFC general manager, “is this (coming) season will be Peterson’s last with the Vikings. Despite the cap hit, they’ll make some sort of move to get him off the roster.”
The feelings have more to do with salary cap issues, and less to do with Peterson being the best back in the NFL. Peterson makes quarterback money, and Minnesota could wisely split Peterson’s salary among three players at more pressing positions. As Peterson gets older, the Vikings would need to decrease his workload. The idea of paying $12 million a season to a running back splitting carries would be idiotic.
If Peterson’s workload has to drop, so to does his value, making the mutual split even more likely to happen.
it's perterson. dude is an exceptional talent and deserves to fade to black slowly, damn, at least try to resrtucure. AD literally carried your sorry team to the offs. like i said in another thread, unless you're a QB, any player getting 8 figures per is not seeing that for more than two years, max.
my team has the best runningback in the game and he still young
I remember when he was a freshman beastin in college 
) and the highest paid at his postion, of course the team is going to look to move him while he still has value before the bottom falls out. He ain't the first or the last. Better players than him have suffered the same fate.
