1999 Payton Award Winner Adrian Peterson Elected to College Football Hall of Fame

[blueballs]

Truly the greatest running back in the history of the division...

He was a Payton Award finalist all 4 years (98-01) and an All American all 4 years. The FCS Offensive POTY is named for him and he was an inaugural inductee into the SOCON Athletic HOF. Georgia Southern won 4 SoCon titles, 2 national titles (99 & 00), runner-up in 1998, and the program's record during his tenure was 52-7.

From his wiki page: In 57 career games including the playoffs, he carried 1378 times for 9145 yards (6.6 avg), 111 touchdowns and an average of 160.44 yards per game. Let that sink in for a moment...

Here's a video of some of his 1-AA/FCS highlights including "The Run" in the 1999 title game and "The Son of The Run" in the 2000 title game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_ABmN-sMU

[ursus arctos horribilis]

That is awesome man. He deserves it.

[FCS_pwns_FBS]

If the NCAA would just retrospectively count postseason, no DI player would ever touch his record.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

That fu fu fu fu fu fu kikin guy was awesome to watch.....................unless you count that run against Montana in the 2000 NC game. Other than that he was fun to watch.

[BEAR]

Heck of an honor! Kid made tacklers look silly....or tackling wasn't taught by his opponents coaches...but I'd think the former...xlolx

[Bisonoline]

He deserves it.

[dewey]

Congratulations to AP. I like that they added the part of him walking through graduation at the end of the video.

Dewey

[Bisonator]

Congrats to him, well deserved!

[VikingPSU]

Congrats AP! Your #3 is the only jersey I own.

[Go...gate]

A marvelous player. Congratulations to Mr. Peterson and Georgia Southern!

Somewhere, Erk Russell is smiling.

[citdog]

Hell of a player.

[uni88]

Well deserved!

They had Brian Urlacher on ESPN radio tonight and he was talking about getting inducted along with Peterson. Said that he was the Real AP and asked the host something along the lines of "Did you ever see him play in college? He was a beast!"

[CHIP72]

Truly the greatest running back in the history of the division...

Uh, what was the name of that award again? The Walter Payton Award?

[Eagle22]

Uh, what was the name of that award again? The Walter Payton Award?

Payton graduated in 1975, I-AA wasn't around until the divisional split in 1978.

blueballs is correct.

[OL FU]

He caused lots of pain and suffering:)

unbelievable player. Deserved and congrats!