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Ex-OU star won't get room to run if Vikings can't pass

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: October 22, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

IRVING, Texas — Adrian Peterson, maybe the NFL's best tailback though his pro career is all of six games old, keeps platooning with Chester Taylor. Which is not as crazy as it sounds.

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With a quarterback like Tarvaris Jackson, it's a wonder Adrian Peterson leads the NFL in rushing. Jackson threw for 78 yards on Sunday. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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If Peterson could alternate with Kejuan Jones as an Oklahoma rookie in 2004, I don't know why he can't take turns with Taylor as a Minnesota Viking rookie in 2007.

The real puzzler about Peterson's spectacular NFL launch is not how much Chester Taylor is playing tailback. It's how much Tarvaris Jackson is playing quarterback.

The Dallas Cowboys ever so slightly slowed Peterson's sojourn to Canton, Ohio, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, beating Minnesota 24-14 Sunday at Texas Stadium, holding Peterson to 63 yards on 12 carries.

Sixty-three yards is a far cry from the 224 Peterson dropped on the Bears a week ago, but it's not too shabby for a tailback whose quarterback completed six of 19 passes.

That's a completion percentage that would shame Texas A&M. Jackson is a second-year pro out of Alabama State, where he transferred after failing to win the job at Arkansas, which is not exactly Quarterback U.

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