Peterson tops Manning for MVP, Comeback Player in two player polls

Vikings running back gets 56.5 percent of the 612 players polled on MVP pick.

January 15, 2013 at 5:51AM
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson (Star Tribune file/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

SOTL.com, which has a relationship with the NFL Players Association, did some player polling for league honors. Vikings running back Adrian Peterson won both MVP and Comeback Player of the Year, beating runner-up Peyton Manning in both cases.

In the MVP vote, the website claims 612 players were polled. Peterson was picked on 56.5 percent of the ballots, while Manning was picked on 35.5 percent.

In the Comeback Player of the Year vote, Peterson was the choice of 59.6 percent of the 433 players polled. Manning had 38.3 percent of the votes.

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Mark Craig

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Mark Craig has covered the NFL nearly every year since Brett Favre was a rookie back in 1991. A sports writer since 1987, he is covering his 30th NFL season out of 37 years with the Canton (Ohio) Repository (1987-99) and the Star Tribune (1999-present).

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