{"id":12432,"date":"2014-11-03T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2014-11-03T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T21:25:07","slug":"mortensen-very-likely-that-adrian-peterson-returns-to-vikings-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/03\/mortensen-very-likely-that-adrian-peterson-returns-to-vikings-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortensen: Very likely that Adrian Peterson returns to Vikings this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11582\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAfter weeks of reports that the Minnesota Vikings were looking to distance themselves from running back Adrian Peterson, ESPN&#8217;s Chris Mortensen reported on NFL Insiders that it&#8217;s &#8220;very possible&#8221; the running back returns before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>If Mortensen&#8217;s report is correct then the Vikings have softened their stance on Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>With fresh legs, Peterson would move rookie running back Jerick McKinnon to the role of a change-of-pace back. With a plea deal looming there is no way to interpret which way this one will go. It also remains to be seen how much a 29-year-old Peterson could help anyone after being out since Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 he appeared in 14 games totaling 1266 yards and 10 touchdowns producing a 4.5 average per carry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of reports that the Minnesota Vikings were looking to distance themselves from running back Adrian Peterson, ESPN&#8217;s Chris Mortensen reported on NFL Insiders that it&#8217;s &#8220;very possible&#8221; the running back returns before the end of the season. If Mortensen&#8217;s report is correct then the Vikings have softened their stance on Peterson. With fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[148,426,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-12432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-front","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}