The Facts:
Following up on
a previous item. ... Peterson insists his collarbone has healed properly and he will be in minicamp for whichever team selects him in Saturday's NFL draft. He's also not concerned that a recent report claiming he will need further surgery on the left collarbone will hurt his draft stock.
Reported by the Associated Press
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
Despite Peterson's claim, Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Mary Kay Cabot advised readers this morning that Peterson's agent, Ben Dogra, concedes that Peterson might need surgery, which as Profootballtalk.com editor Mike Florio suggests, would knock him out of all off-season workouts. Dogra told Cabot the team that drafts Peterson will have to decide whether a plate should be surgically inserted into the site of the injury. "It's not a foregone that he'll need the surgery," said Dogra. ... At this point, it appears some teams think that surgery will be necessary and others don't.
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