Less than 14 months after suffering a brutal knee injury, Adrian Peterson took the NFL Honors stage in New Orleans to accept the 2012 NFL MVP award. It was the second trip to the stage for the man nicknamed All Day, as he'd earlier gone up to accept the 2012 NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award. And though Peterson said all along he'd win the MVP, even he didn't seem to fully grasp that the voters had selected him. "It's been a long year and this is more to add on to the testimony that you can accomplish anything if you put God first and continue to work hard," Peterson said after a speechless few seconds on the stage. "A year ago a lot of people were counting me out and I'm blessed to be here." The MVP award for the last few years has been essentially reduced to most-valuable quarterback; Peterson is the first running back to win the MVP since LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006 and he did it after stating that he believed he should win after the season ended. "I never made a guarantee," Peterson said. "But I had confidence and I knew I had a good chance of winning." Peterson's Week 17 game didn't hurt matters: the running back rumbled for 199 yards against the Packers to clinch a playoff berth for the Vikings and ended up falling just nine yards short of Eric twinkyerson's single-season rushing-yards record. Source: CBSSports.com
Coming back from as devestating as an injury as he had and almost shattering twinkyersons record, how can you not give him MVP? I will agree that Peyton must have been very very close and I'm honestly surprised he didn't get it but he did not have an almost record breaking season and he didn't join an Elite what is it now 8 RB's in rushing for 2000 yards.
