Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson won the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Award in a landslide.

Peterson, as always, showed his respect for the game in talking about the award and what it means to him:

“It’s a great honor to join a list with names like those,” Peterson said Wednesday when told that Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Eric Dickerson and Billy Sims also won the award. “They are guys that I looked up to growing up. It’s a goal that I set before the year started, to win rookie of the year, so it feels great to accomplish that.”

Peterson received 46 1/2 of the 50 first place votes in the voting this year.

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