Adrian Peterson took his first carry last year all the way for a 78-yard touchdown.
He predicted it, too, during a conversation the week of the season opener with fellow Minnesota Vikings running backs Toby Gerhart and Matt Asiata.
"I'm going to take it to the house," Peterson told them, a few days before he scored to start that game at Detroit. "Then when it happened, I came to the sideline and they reminded me of it. They were like, 'Oh, man, you said you were going to do that.'"
So how about this year, Sunday at St. Louis?
"Hopefully I will try to say it again and hopefully it will work on the same way," Peterson said.
Thanks to some prompting from a reporter Thursday, Peterson turned that hope into a prediction.
"Yeah, I might as well speak it," he said. "Touchdown. First run."
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