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Acquired: First-round draft choice (seventh overall) in 2007
College: Oklahoma
NFL season: fourth
Set a Vikings record with 18 rushing touchdowns in 2009.
Led the league in rushing, the first Viking to accomplish the feat, with 1,760 yards in 2008.
Holds the NFL record for yards rushing in a game (296 vs. San Diego 11/4/07).
Won the Bert Bell Award as pro football's player of the year in 2008.
All-Pro first team the past two seasons, has started the Pro Bowl for the NFC the past three seasons, and was the game's MVP following the 2007 season.
With 4,484 rushing yards in his first three seasons is fourth best in NFL history for a fourth-year player.
His father, Nelson Peterson, was a college basketball player at Idaho State and his mother, Bonita Jackson, was a track and field standout.
Peterson has a daughter, Adeja.

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