Adrian Peterson Impressing in His Rehab (1 Viewer)

[Hoot&HoLLer]

Saw this in the fbg email updates and posted in the Minnesota 2012 off season thread by user sports_fan in post #761.

I think this topic deserves its own thread as ADP's value in both redrafts and dynasty, coupled with his age are a topic on the minds

-of many. As an elite rb coming off a devastating knee injury - in dynasty are you buying, selling, or holding and why?

I do not own him but would gladly take the risk and try to buy as the medical care and rehabilitative services for ligament tears of the knees are so much more advanced today than in the past 5-10 years. Elite athletes like Peterson will not be deterred from resuming where he left off. The owners of him might be scared and for the right price, might be willing to part ways with a great back who still has a lot of miles left on him.

FBG News

MIN - RB Adrian Peterson beats teammates in wind sprints

Source: 1500ESPN.com - Tom Pelissero

Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier said Thursday, April 26, that RB Adrian Peterson (knee) joined teammates for wind sprints this week at voluntary offseason workouts, and he beat them four times.

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Considering Peterson is just four months removed from knee surgery this is amazing. His recovery is going well but we still expect the Vikings to take it easy on him in OTAs and training camp.

ETA to fix link of FBG news story.

 

[Buck Stop]

 

[griff321]

My link

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Adrian Peterson continues impressing people with the pace of his rehabilitation. Even his teammates.

Players returned to Winter Park on Monday for the start of the offseason strength and conditioning program. Peterson, the star halfback who is recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee, was also in town for rehab -- but ended up doing more than that.

"He was off to the side working with our trainer, Eric Sugarman, and he looked out and saw the guys doing their wind sprints," coach Leslie Frazier said on Thursday night.

"He says, 'You know, I don't think they're running hard enough.' Eric allowed him to go out and run with them, and he passed them four different times. He finished in first four different times."

This, from a player less than four months removed from major surgery following tears to his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament on Dec. 24 at Washington.

He began dryland running about a month ago, keeping in line with the rehab program Sugarman laid out in January the Vikings hope will have Peterson ready for their Sept. 9 opener against Jacksonville.

"I remember (backup quarterback) Joe Webb saying, 'I can't believe it. I just can't believe it,'" Frazier said. "So, he's doing great and we're optimistic that he's going to be ready for that first game. I know that's his goal and we'll just see how he continues to progress, but he's doing great."

Peterson has begun some cutting, Frazier said, "but that's the next step. He has to get to the point where he's comfortable cutting. Straight ahead, he's doing great. Now he has to get to the point where he's comfortable being able to go left to right or right to left and stopping and starting. So, one step at a time."

Frazier said there were no surprise injuries when players returned. According to Frazier, only three or four players on the roster haven't been participating in the voluntary workouts -- the best attendance in his time with the Vikings.

That list includes end Jared Allen and receiver Percy Harvin, who underwent arthroscopic shoulder surgery on Tuesday as scheduled but is expected to be ready when organized team activity practices begin on May 29.

The guy is making a Walter Payton like recovery.

 

[Winning IS Everything]

I second this!!!!!

 

[mjr]

I picked up AP in a trade a few weeks ago as a #2 or 3 RB hoping he would provide my team with that extra boost during the second half of the season and into the playoffs, but as news of his rehab keeps coming out to sound better and better, Im starting to hope he'll do a lot more for my team earlier than I thought. Just praying he doesn't hit any setbacks.

IMO, I think AP has all that it takes to return to his earlier form, or at least close to it (not an if but a when kind of thing). The window on getting him at a discount is already starting to close. So long as the news continues to be good, his value will keep climbing back up from here on out.

On the other hand, I would be reluctant to buy on AP as a #1 and a fantasy franchise player to build around. I would probably hold until August and then sell him for as much as I could get if that were my situation.

 

[Prussian]

I too picked him up in trade a few weeks ago. (SJax, 1.08, 2.03) I have Foster and two also-rans starters, but saw the upside expecting ADP plays somewhere about Week 4.

At this rate, he may be available Week 1. Sweet! Just no set backs please ...

 

[Abraham]

Running straight is not the thing that concerns me.

 

[King of the Jungle]

Dude is a freak of nature.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Running straight is not the thing that concerns me.

Of course not, but its an encouraging start that his speed is all the way back after only 4 months.ETA: Also "wind sprints" are not just running in a staright line. It involves reaching a marker, planting a foot and turning back around several times, While it's not pure cutting it does show even more strength in the knee that just staright line running.

 

[matttyl]

Running straight is not the thing that concerns me.

Of course not, but its an encouraging start that his speed is all the way back after only 4 months.

Are we actually nearing the point when a player (not specifically RB) can return to the game the same season that he tears his ACL? A few years ago it was an 18 month thing. Welker did it fine in a single offseason. AP is back running (straight) in 4 months.....

 

[shader]

Running straight is not the thing that concerns me.

Of course not, but its an encouraging start that his speed is all the way back after only 4 months.

Are we actually nearing the point when a player (not specifically RB) can return to the game the same season that he tears his ACL? A few years ago it was an 18 month thing. Welker did it fine in a single offseason. AP is back running (straight) in 4 months.....

There is no question that technology has vastly improved.That being said, I think it depends on what all gets torn. A full tear (Mcl, ACL, meniscus) or a tear of just one of them might have a lot to do with it.But you wonder how guys like Edgerrin James would have done if they had those injuries now instead of ten years ago. The technology just seems remarkably better now.