The time had come, Cooper thought, for what he called “putting math on this.”“I don’t see you getting called before training camp,” he told Peterson. That way, if the phone call did come, Peterson could walk into that team’s camp looking as if he had been there all along. If that phone buzzed, Peterson had to feel as if he had been right beside them, grunting through the swelter. Running backs throughout the league started going down, their injuries announced on television scrolls. But Peterson hadn’t spent the previous five weeks replicating training camp just to fly to Washington and take a physical.

Source: Washington Post September 13, 2018 11:26 UTC