{"id":1627,"date":"2021-11-02T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2021-11-02T03:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:37:46","slug":"titans-sign-adrian-peterson-after-derrick-henry-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/titans-sign-adrian-peterson-after-derrick-henry-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans sign Adrian Peterson after Derrick Henry injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-3ddb0637-941a-4f20-811f-b1c933ec55b7\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennesseetitans.com\">Tennessee Titans <\/a>worse nightmare has been confirmed with the news that Derrick Henry will be out six to ten weeks due to a foot injury that requires surgery. With this unexpected curveball, it didn\u2019t take the Titans long to fill their need in the backfield with All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson signing on as the Titans interim solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdamSchefter<\/a>, Derrick Henry\u2019s foot injury Sunday is considered \u201cpotentially season-ending.\u201d<br><br>He will undergo an MRI today to determine the extent of the injury.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Titans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U31QqSCS3E\">pic.twitter.com\/U31QqSCS3E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Double Take Sports (@dbltakesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbltakesports\/status\/1455171697749921793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3ddb0637-941a-4f20-811f-b1c933ec55b7\">The signing comes after Adrian Peterson worked out for the team on Monday.&nbsp; Peterson is 36 years old but still has some gas left in the tank. His running style is similar to Henry\u2019s but not as debilitating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3ddb0637-941a-4f20-811f-b1c933ec55b7\"> Last year with the Detroit Lions, Peterson rushed 604 yards and seven touchdowns. Prior to that, during his 2018 season in Washington, Peterson rushed for 1,042 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Peterson is viable option, the loss of Henry still changes the identity of the Titans. Sitting at 6-2, they can still be productive on the ground but their offense will have to be a lot more creative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry\u2019s presence forced opponents to pick their poison. This provided some relief for quarterback Ryan Tannehill and opened up opportunities downfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;I know that he&#8217;ll [Derrick Henry] be around our team as soon as he can. I know that&#8217;s important to him,&#8221; Titans coach Mike Vrabel said. &#8220;I know that&#8217;ll be important to our team. We will have to move on. We&#8217;ll have to move on, unfortunately, without him here in the short term and not look back.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the offense adjusts without their monstrous offensive weapon.&nbsp;In the meantime, Peterson is back on a NFL team and there is no doubt he will be a positive contributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Peterson has signed with the Tennessee Titans after the team learned Derrick Henry&#8217;s foot injury will sideline him for 8-10 weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbltakesports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}