{"id":58269,"date":"2019-03-13T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=58269"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:46:59","slug":"adrian-peterson-re-signs-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/03\/13\/adrian-peterson-re-signs-redskins\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson Re-Signs With Washington Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012\u00a0league MVP has signed a new contract as it was announced that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/P\/PeteAd01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Peterson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0inked a two-year deal with the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/redskins\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Redskins<\/a>. ESPN&#8217;s <strong>Josina Anderson<\/strong> initially reported on the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RB Adrian Peterson just called me and told me &quot;I am going back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Redskins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Redskins<\/a>. It will be a 2-year deal. I feel like we made some good moves to get to where we are trying to go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JosinaAnderson\/status\/1105904184145207296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Washington Redskins Sign Adrian Peterson to Two-Year Deal<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Stuck in a committee\u00a0with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/I\/IngrMa01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Ingram<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KamaAl00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvin Kamara<\/a><\/strong> to start the 2017\u00a0season, Peterson&#8217;s career looked to be over after being traded midseason from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/saints\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona\u00a0Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0and injuring his neck. The injury would end Peterson&#8217;s season. He disbanded those ideals after signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/redskins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington\u00a0Redskins<\/a> and running for over 1,000 yards for the eighth time\u00a0in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old will be looking to repeat that success in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson had a resurgence\u00a0in 2018 in Washington after the rockiest year of his career in 2017. Washington signed Peterson after rookie second-round pick <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/derrius-guice-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darius Guice<\/a><\/strong> went down with a torn ACL. Signed to the veteran minimum, Peterson well outperformed his price tag running for 1,042 yards and starting every game of the season. His ball security was also better than usual as he only fumbled three times &#8212; his least in a 12+ game season since 2011. If nothing, he proved that he can still start in the NFL even as he continues into his mid-30s.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson has racked up a cabinet full of accolades\u00a0throughout his NFL career. Since being drafted seventh overall in 2009 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/vikings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota\u00a0Vikings<\/a>, Peterson has won offensive rookie of the year, been to seven Pro Bowls, been named first-team All-Pro four times, second-team three times, and lead the league in rushing three times. His most recent rushing title came in 2015.<\/p>\n<h3>Last Word<\/h3>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t matter where Peterson landed, he was going to command the rock. Peterson adds a veteran presence to a fairly steady backfield and will likely have his sights set on starting or at least handling the bulk of the carries.\u00a0Peterson is continuing to chase history sitting eighth all-time in career rushing yards and tied for fifth all-time with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BrowJi00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Brown<\/a><\/strong> in rushing touchdowns with 106. He only trails <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GoreFr00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Gore<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in rushing yards among active players.<\/p>\n<p>With a new contract\u00a0going into the 2019 season, Peterson&#8217;s inevitable Hall of Fame induction is going to have to wait another year.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"e1Ara24BSmdFGtaYQUwhlA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1077782568\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'e1Ara24BSmdFGtaYQUwhlA',sig:'e2Ui4WvNcHQPC0aS3ibO6Tf30bHtoNC6KHLVBPxQkOY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1077782568',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Peterson proved that he still had it in 2018 as the 33-year-old was one of nine NFL running backs to eclipse 1,000 yards rushing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2823,"featured_media":60212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36,8896],"tags":[4547,62,61,40,93],"class_list":["post-58269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-football-team","category-nfl-news","category-washington-commanders","tag-2019-nfl-season","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-washington-redskins"],"modified_by":"Al Preziosi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}