{"id":117085,"date":"2017-02-28T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117085"},"modified":"2017-02-28T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:54:24","slug":"vikings-decline-option-petersons-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117085","title":{"rendered":"Vikings decline option, Peterson&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70328\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Peterson2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Peterson2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Peterson2-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Peterson2-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Peterson2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Adrian Peterson, Minnesota&#8217;s all-time leading rusher, will be an unrestricted free agent when the market opens next week.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the Vikings declined to exercise their option for next season on Peterson&#8217;s contract. Peterson was scheduled to make $18 million in 2017, what would have been an unwieldly hit to their salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Rick Spielman says the team will &#8220;continue to have conversations&#8221; with Peterson&#8217;s representatives about the potential of re-signing the soon-to-be 32-year-old Peterson. He has played 10 seasons with the Vikings, who drafted him seventh overall out of Oklahoma in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He is coming off a meniscus tear in his right knee that limited him to 72 yards on 37 carries over parts of three games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Adrian Peterson, Minnesota&#8217;s all-time leading rusher, will be an unrestricted free agent when the market opens next week. As expected, the Vikings declined to exercise their option for next season on Peterson&#8217;s contract. Peterson was scheduled to make $18 million in 2017, what would have been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117086,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117085\/revisions\/117086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}