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Vikings coach Brad Childress said he expects running back Adrian Peterson to participate in the team's minicamp and offseason program, despite a collarbone injury that some teams reportedly believed might require surgery.

"To my knowledge," Childress said, "he's not going to have any of those issues."

Childress said he expects Peterson and returning starter Chester Taylor to split time at the running back position and that they could play together at times.

"They could," Childress said. "We'll probably end up calling it something like a Pony backfield. We did that with (Brian) Westbrook and (Correll) Buckhalter out in Philadelphia."