The Facts: Following up on the ongoing story. ... CBSSports.com's insider Jason La Canfora doesn't expect there to be a robust market for Peterson, who is currently slated to earn $18 million in Minnesota. La Canfora doesn't expect there to be any significant guaranteed money. And La Canfora doesn't expect Peterson's attempts to play footsy on social media while still under contract to the Vikings at the highest rate ever for a running back to do a damn thing to change that. The Vikings will certainly want Peterson to take a pay cut and he has hinted at interest in other teams

Diehards Line:. But as La Canfora explains, teams want to go young and cheap by and large at running back. There would be natural questions about Peterson’s willingness to be a backup on a good team (getting maybe 5-10 touches a game) and questions about his durability if he had to be a bell cow on a bad team. Several GMs who have watched his film expressed real concerns about where he is at this stage in his career, and wondered if he would really be willing to play on a one-year, $5 million deal with incentives if that’s what the market bears. “It only takes one team to do something stupid,” one NFL contract negotiator told La Canfora, “but I can’t see there being much out there for him once the Vikings let him go.” Peterson rushed 144 times for just 416 yards in a half season of work last season, a paltry 2.9 yards per carry. The league average in most years is 4 yards. The average salary for an NFL running back in 2016 was $1.6 million. Over the past three years, Peterson has appeared in just 20 of a possible 48 games, carrying a total of 385 times for 1,632 yards (4.2 per carry) with 11 touchdowns. He has done that while bringing home a staggering $35 million. Safe to say those days are over.