Adrian Peterson has earned a boatload of money over the years, but his 2018 season won’t be all that lucrative. Peterson’s one-year deal with the Redskins is for the veteran’s minimum of $1.015MM, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets. Per the terms of the CBA, that deal will count for just $630K against the cap. 
Peterson’s deal also comes without guarantees, so he’ll have to make the Week 1 roster in order to earn his salary. With three weeks to go before the regular season, that’s not exactly a sure thing either. The Redskins say Peterson was not signed as a reaction to lead rusher Derrius Guice‘s injury, but rather because of recent injuries to Samaje Perine and Byron Marshall. If both players are ready in time for the season opener and Peterson does not impress, there might not be a place for him in D.C.
In addition to Perine and Marshall, the Redskins also have lead rusher Robert Kelley, pass-catching specialist Chris Thompson, and Kapri Bibbs under contract.
Skinny Rob Kelley!
I’m gonna guess that if he can’t make an opening day roster on a minimum contract, then he might want to think about the next phase of his journey…
This will almost certainly be his last stop unless one of those new leagues try to use A.P. as a marketing tool.
Good of him to be so reasonable.
League minimum with no guarantees is the worst contract you can get. I would change the word reasonable to realistic.
Realistic is reasonable.
Adrian’s post Vikings days have been ROCKY.
He absolutely embarrassed our Bears on a few occasions but this is not how I want to see a former MVP and future Hall of Famer close out his career.
I am guessing there are some performance incentives in the contract as well. If he somehow finds the fountain of youth, he’ll want to get paid for it!
The performance incentives that Washington could offer would be so low that they would actually be an embarrassment to someone who was once an MVP and I don’t think the Redskins want to humiliate A.P. that way.