"The Vikings will make a game-time decision on whether star running back Adrian Peterson will play Sunday against Denver. Peterson, who missed the Atlanta game last Sunday after suffering a high ankle sprain early in the 27-21 loss to Oakland on Nov. 20, said he will play hurt if he can.

"I don't have to be 100 percent," Peterson said. "I've played several times when I wasn't 100 percent. If I feel like I can go and I can help the team and I can be productive, I'll go."

Peterson has missed only five games because of injuries since being drafted by the Vikings in 2007, but it was a different story when he played college football at Oklahoma.

"I was there three years," he said, "and I probably missed like a whole season of football, because my sophomore year I missed like four or five games and then I broke my collarbone my junior year and I missed like six or seven. I really only played like two years of college ball."

Peterson said this is probably the second-worst ankle injury he's had.

"The first one that I had came in college my sophomore year, and it was 10 times worse than this one. It was four or five weeks. It was a Grade 3 [most severe] high ankle sprain, and it was brutal," Peterson said."