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A lot has been made out of Adrian Peterson missing last weekend's minicamp. Head coach Brad Childress was openly miffed about Peterson missing practice to attend "Adrian Peterson Day" in Texas. This is all very interesting , and especially so because of two facts: First, many immediately pull the "Brett Favre card," suggesting that if Favre can skip on workouts, then why can't Peterson? There is also the suggestion that the Vikings had ...

If you haven't noticed, NFL teams are playing a bit more like, well, teams these days. This ends up being quite useful in keeping your running game and offense fresh for the playoffs and a potentially long playoff run. However, a favor to fantasy football owners, it is not. You don't need stats and situational numbers to paint the picture. The days of multiple running backs like Shaun Alexander, LaDainian ...

Ray Rice impressed some folks in his rookie season two years ago, putting up solid numbers and displaying amazing speed and quickness. There was only one problem. Despite gaining over 700 total yards on just 140 touches, Rice failed to get into the end zone. As he took over the feature back role in Baltimore, this problem started to go away. However, when Rice ended the season with eight scores on ...

We know it's not going to be a long-term gig, but talk is heating up about who will be the temporary face of the Pittsburgh Steelers' franchise on opening day in 2010. Ben Roethlisberger is slated to miss a minimum of four games, and possibly up to six, leaving Byron Leftwich, Charlie Batch, and Dennis Dixon to battle it out for the starting gig that should last about a quarter of ...

The full-fledged "feature" starting running back is dying in the NFL. Whether it's injuries or wear-and-tear, teams are finding it much easier to just pair two solid running backs together and split the weathering load, rather than appease fantasy football nerds everywhere and give the rock to one guy all day . It's too early for bonafide rankings. Well, not really , but we felt it'd do all fantasy owners a great ...

Sports Illustrated's Peter King is the latest misinformed, rumor-chasing, supposedly competent sports reporter to give the NFL world the "latest dish". The well-respected writer confidently says that "some guy" (who none of us know for sure) spoke to Brett Favre after the 2009 NFL season, and was told that Favre is "100% positive" that he's retiring. Right. And Terrell Owens is being reunited with Donovan McNabb. And Ben Roethlisberger is being traded to ...

The NFL Draft is gone, done, and over with. But the effects of what took place in the historical three-day event won't show themselves completely until August, and in many cases, not for a couple of years. From the head-scratching moves to the amazing trades and value picks, NFL Soup gives a complete rundown of how each NFL team fared in the 2010 NFL Draft .     St. Louis Rams   The Rams used the ...