Should we believe the Adrian Peterson hype? or should we let another person take the chance?

Question

AP makes me nervous with the threat of injury and sophomore slump? Whats the take on Peterson?

Answer 1

the sophmore slump is just chance. this won't happen to Ap or marshawn lynch. just handcuff chester taylor

Answer 2

That's a great question that I'm sure is on many people's mind this year.

Pros- He certainly has the potential to be the #1 RB this year. He plays behind an impressive O-line, he can break the big runs, and he knows how to find the endzone.

Cons- While I'm not sure I believe in the "sophmore slump", he is most definitely an injury risk. If I've got my facts straight he has NEVER played a full season without an injury of some sort. Obviously this includes his college years as well. Chester Taylor will be playing as a change of pace back at least. He'll take 10 carries away from Peterson every game, maybe more.

So what's the take? Well, he's basically in a RBBC situation. Don't let people convince you that Taylor won't get as many carries this year. Of course he will, it'll keep AP fresh and Taylor is a legitimate RB in his own right. Why should that matter with most teams splitting RB reps anyway? An interesting fact about AP, he did most of his damage on the long runs. His yds per carry was not that impressive if you take the huge runs out. When he's losing reps to Taylor, that's fewer chances he'll have to break a big one.

OK.......I admit I'm nitpicking, and despite all this he's a top 3 RB this year in all likelyhood. I only bring this up at all to support my premise that 2 RBs don't have these "problems". LT and Westbrook. For those reasons I believe the RBs break down as follows............

1) LT

2) Westbrook

3) AP

That's my opinion.

Answer 3

I Dont Like Peterson this much this year.  He is a great runner but now the defense will start studying him and will know how to stop him.  If you noticed, his last few games of the year he wasnt doing much since they knew that they had to stop him.  Peterson is defianitly 1st round but not better then LT.