Adrian Peterson is headed for a place that fits the way Vikings fans remember him best: inside the team’s Ring of Honor.
The Vikings announced that Peterson will be inducted on Monday, November 9, when Minnesota faces the Bills. It’s a fitting nod for a running back whose name still sits near the top of the franchise’s record book and whose most explosive years came in purple.
Peterson’s resume with the Vikings is loaded. In 10 seasons with Minnesota, he piled up 11,747 rushing yards, part of a career total of 14,918 yards that ranks fifth all-time. He also captured the NFL’s MVP award in 2012 after a season that produced 2,097 rushing yards, coming just one year after he tore his ACL on Christmas Eve.
His time in the league wasn’t without controversy. In 2014, Peterson missed nearly the entire season while on paid leave after felony child-abuse charges. That case ended with a no-contest plea to misdemeanor reckless assault.
Still, the on-field production kept coming. The next season, he led the NFL in rushing with 1,485 yards.
Peterson was a seven-time Pro Bowler with the Vikings, earned offensive rookie of the year honors in 2007, and was selected four times as a first-team All-Pro and three times as a second-team All-Pro.
When the ceremony arrives, Peterson will become the 29th member of the Vikings’ Ring of Honor. And based on the body of work he left behind, it feels like only a matter of time before he gets the call to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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