Adrian Peterson To Begin Running On February 28

AD is a beast and will be back in no time. No one’s going to work harder. Lock for Comeback player of the year? Maybe they’ll give it to Cook. HA.

I tore my ACL my Sr year in HS(11 years ago). I waited a year to have surgery though because I didn’t want to be on crutches my first year at college(golfed there). I was golfing after a couple of months(albeit basically one-legged), but running takes a little while. It sounds silling even for an athlete of AD’s caliber, but the muscle atrophy is ridiculous. My entire leg looked like I lost about 25% of the muscle mass I had before the surgery. You’d be surprised how quickly that goes if you’re not doing anything on that leg. Also, when you have one leg stronger than the other it can cause you to run unevenly. When you’re young and everything’s going good you take that stuff for granted, but you almost need to concentrate on being as balanced as possible in both your rehab and even just running otherwise you’ll start some bad habit. If you’ve got different strides for each leg it can lead to hip/ankle/other knee/back problems. It’s really crazy how the entire body works together.

Can’t stress enough how incredible it really is that Ced even got back on the field after his 2nd ACL and we’ve all seen the incredible difference those surgeries/injuries can have. Best of luck to AD and get better soon. We need you now more than ever.

He would soon be able to start running in water. Anyone who has been in water before knows you are nearly weightless while in water. Therefore we can assume the reason they want him to start out in water is that it will be much easier on his knee than dry land. Peterson made no indication either way so it would be interesting to know if he is running on land or water. I would be extremely surprised if he was running around on land already (if he had started in water already I think there would have been some news on that) but who knows.