Quote:People laugh at me when I say Adrian Peterson reminds me of a young Fred Taylor, but its true in my eyes. Freddy T had hamstring and groin issues early on his career, otherwise he would've probably had a 2000 yard rushing season and would've retired in the top 10 in total rushing yards. This is why Peterson is one of my favorite players in the league. Like watching Fred.

 

I feel like Peterson has more "power" than Taylor did. I don't know that I've ever seen a player with the kind of speed that AP has, just rip through tackles the way that he does. Fred would simply juke you unitl you fell over and maybe throw a stiffarm on his way by -- it felt to me like he brought along his stiff arm and shoulder in the latter part of his career -- and then turn on the speed.

 

AP seems a bit less "move" based than Fred was in that Peterson knows he doesn't need you to be totally out of position in order to get around or through you, he just needs you to be off balance just that much and he's gone.

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