{"id":120339,"date":"2017-04-25T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120339"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:36:18","slug":"adrian-peterson-signs-with-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120339","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson to sign with Saints"},"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\" \/>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Free-agent running back Adrian <span style=\"color: red;\">Peterson<\/span> has reportedly agreed to a two-year contract<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/19237595\/adrian-peterson-says-signing-new-orleans-saints\"> with the New Orleans Saints.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Saints have not announced a deal, but <span style=\"color: red;\">Peterson<\/span> tells ESPN in a statement that he&#8217;s agreed to play in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Peterson<\/span> has spent his entire 10-year NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, surpassing 1,000 yards rushing in a season seven times and 2,000 yards once.<\/p>\n<p>However, he played in only three games last season before being sidelined by a knee injury. He also missed 15 games in 2014 because of a child abuse case in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless assault. The victim was his son, then 4 years old.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Peterson&#8217;s<\/span> last full season was in 2015, when he had 1,485 yards and 11 touchdowns rushing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Free-agent running back Adrian Peterson has reportedly agreed to a two-year contract with the New Orleans Saints. The Saints have not announced a deal, but Peterson tells ESPN in a statement that he&#8217;s agreed to play in New Orleans. Peterson has spent his entire 10-year NFL [&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-120339","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\/120339","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=120339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120342,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120339\/revisions\/120342"}],"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=120339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}