Adrian Peterson backs former NFL players’ painkiller lawsuit

Adrian Peterson empathizes with former players who are suing the NFL over painkillers and other medication they were given during their playing days.

More than 600 former players contend team physicians and trainers across the NFL routinely and often illegally dispensed powerful narcotics and other controlled substances on game days to mask pain.

Peterson, who made a sensationally quick return from torn knee ligaments to win the 2012 NFL MVP award, says he’s made sure he was completely informed about what he has been given throughout his career with the Minnesota Vikings, and in college at Oklahoma.

Peterson heads into his eighth pro season as one of the most respected athletes in the NFL, if not all of sports.

“It’s humbling to be able to have someone express to you on your rehab how it just inspired them to have a totally different mindset to overcome injury or obstacles in their life,” said Peterson, 29.