He's baack. Finally.
To mark the long-awaited, official reinstatement Friday of one Adrian Lewis Peterson to the NFL ranks, it's time for an All-Day Prediction.
2,000 yards.
After all of this drama – the exempt list, no-showing for a disciplinary hearing, a secretly-taped phone call, a suspension overturned on appeal, an NFL appeal of the appeal, and enough trade speculation to create a reality TV series with – Peterson cannot come back and have some ho-hum season.
Although some people may never forgive Peterson for the manner in which he whipped his then-4-year-old son with a switch, fueling the child abuse charges that resulted in probation from a Texas court and the hotly-contested NFL suspension, he has indeed paid a stiff price for that.