Being drafted by the Minnesota Vikings as a second-round pick from the 2010 NFL draft, running back Toby Gerhart seemed doomed to get linked with the team. Although he would put on Vikings jersey for the first time by the time of rookie camp, Gerhart has already known some of the Vikings long before.
The starting running back Gerhart is going to back up, Adrian Peterson has been the rookie’s idol for long. Winning the Heisman Trophy as one of the best college running backs, Gerhart’s career goal is just to become a running back like Peterson, who was a college star already when Gerhart was a freshman in college. Then he met the famous running back at a Super Bowl game and was excited enough to have a handshake with Peterson. Now he really puts on Vikings jersey and will play with his idol, and Gerhart just has more motivation than other rookies to do his best.
Except for Peterson, there is another Vikings a non-stranger to Gerhart. Running backs coach Eric Bieniemy used to be recruiting Gerhart to UCLA, but eventually Gerhart went to Stanford and Bieniemy joined the Vikings. So it’s interesting enough that finally the two still came to the same place to work for the same team.
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