Recently asked if he’ll be present for voluntary offseason workouts in Minnesota, running back Adrian Peterson said, “We’ll see. I haven’t even been reinstated yet.”
He has since been reinstated, but Peterson isn’t expected to show. That’s the word from Sid Hartman of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Peterson’s $13 million compensation package for 2015 includes a $250,000 workout bonus. Most workout bonuses contain a fairly high threshold for participation, often 80 or 90 percent.
For Peterson, the money is a drop in the bucket, if he’s looking for a new deal and/or a new team.
Notwithstanding recent interest (or whatever it can be called) from the Cowboys and a report that the Raiders have interest, the top candidates for a trade continue to be the Cardinals, Jaguars, and Buccaneers. While some have construed a report that the Vikings want a first-round pick and a starting corner for Peterson as proof that the Vikings are willing to trade Peterson, the truth could be that the Vikings have applied a high price tag to scare off anyone who thinks they can steal Peterson for peanuts.
Regardless, many wonder whether the Vikings eventually will blink, given that they insisted in 2013 that the Vikings have “no intent” to trade Percy Harvin -- and then traded him. So no one believes that the Vikings will insist on keeping Peterson, even though the continue to say they do.
