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Article: Vikings' Peterson is named NFL's top offensive rookie
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2008
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Adrian Peterson is impressed.
Not so much by his achievements as he ran away with The
Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year voting the same
way he surged past opposing tacklers this season. What has gotten
the attention of the Minnesota Vikings running back is who he joins
as winners of the award.
"It's a great honor to join a list with names like those,"
Peterson said Wednesday when told that Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Eric
Dickerson and Billy Sims also won the award. "They are guys that I
looked up to growing up. It's a goal that I set before the year
started, to win rookie of the year, so it feels great to accomplish
that."
Peterson, who set the league mark for rushing in a game ...