EAGAN, Minn. — Myles Price's first football jersey clung to him all day and night.

"Man, when I first got it, I think I wore it for like a week straight," he said recently. "I didn't take it off."

It was purple and had a PETERSON nameplate. That's right. Price was enamored by the former Vikings running back and tonight's Ring of Honor inductee when he was a youngster growing up in Texas.

Price's face is, well, priceless sitting at a high-top table outside of the locker room after practice. His fight to make the team in 2025 as an undrafted free agent contrasts Adrian Peterson's sprint to football immortality. But the players are of the same ilk in other ways, bursting onto the scene for the same team, shattering records as rookies and earning their stripes as threats to go the distance.

Price leads the NFL in punt return yards and is averaging a preposterous 17.9 yards per return. He's pulling double duty in the kickoff phase and is averaging 29.7 yards on 21 returns so far. Price is so electric that people are rocking his jersey nowadays, including Assistant Special Teams Coach Chili Davis, who strolled around TCO Performance Center one week ago in a purple No. 4. That significance isn't lost on Price — that he gets to follow Peterson's footsteps.

"I'm not going to lie, the first time I see him, I'm probably going to be starstruck, because that's A.P.," Price said. "To be living out my dreams in the same place that my favorite player played, like, I think that's a crazy thing, and I can't wait to meet him. Ring of Honor or not, I'm going up to him. I've got to tell him, 'Bro, listen, you are my favorite player in the whole wide world.' I've got to let him know."

We caught up with Price to hear about his development in the third phase under Special Teams Coordinator Matt Daniels, whose nickname is "Hat," and we started with a question about "All Day." Price's favorite memory of Peterson, by the way, is him trucking Steelers cornerback William Gay.

Q: First things first, when did you become a Peterson stan?

A: My first ever number was 21 — LaDainian Tomlinson — and then I found Adrian Peterson. And after I found him, I think that's when everything changed, honestly. I used to wake up and watch his highlights. I've seen every last one of the highlight reels he has on YouTube. Probably like 10 times.

I just loved watching him play. If you ask my mom or my dad today, like, 'Who's his favorite player?' [They'd say], 'Adrian Peterson.' I love how hard he played, how he ran the ball, how he got to bucking that head, you knew it was over with. He got bucking that head, you better move, you better move!

Q: Now let's chat about you, Myles. How does it feel to be contributing on offense in Year 2?

A: It's been super exciting. I understand my role, and that's punt return, kick return, and then whenever we need a hand on offense, do that job at as high of a level as the guy who was in there before. And I own that role. I mean, it's been fun. It's been a good feeling to be out there not just on special teams but also involved in the offense a bit, just kind of getting my feet wet a little bit more.

Q: All the while you've taken your return game to even greater heights — how?

A: I definitely feel more comfortable and I think you can see it in my play. Another thing that's standing out is — I mean, I think people felt like this last year — but almost every time I touch the ball, it's like, this could be the one that goes. All of them have pretty much been big returns. I'm just trying to keep that going but also not get in my head to where I'm trying to do too much and exposing myself to something negative happening. That's where I'm trying to take the next step. Sometimes I can get a bit like, 'I'm trying to make a play right now,' and it can put me in vulnerable situations.

Q: Would you say you've come a long way as a returner?

A: Oh, my gosh. High school punts and kickoffs, I caught none of them out of the air. None. I would let the ball hit the ground and catch it off the hop. I got to college and I was trying to do that, and they were telling me, 'You can't let that ball hit the ground.' I started to get better at punt return, but my first time ever doing kick return in a game I got back there, and the first two reps I had a muff. Like, it was just a bunch of craziness happening. I didn't get to do kick return, again, until I got to Indiana, and I was the off returner there so, really, my first time doing kick return since high school was when I got up here. And then I started to get good at punt return my sophomore year (at Texas Tech). I really started to learn how to read a punt, track it, see it off the punter's foot. And shoot, I used to say I love punt return more than I love kick return. But then I got up here and I started doing really good at kick return. It's all I want. I love kick return. My best friend, Mikey, all through college would say, 'Bro, do kick return!' He would get so mad at me because I didn't do kick return. And then the first opportunity I got on kick return here I took it 70, 80 yards (81 in the preseason against New England). Mikey was the first person to text me: 'I told you, should have been doing kick return.'

Q: I can't let you go without reminiscing on your 86-yard punt return to the house in Week 3.

A: Man, when I crossed that goal, it's like [I couldn't even believe it]. You could almost see it in my reaction. It's like, 'Oh my gosh, I did it. I finally … It counted! I did it!' It was a great feeling. And then to get back to the sideline and see Hat — there's a picture of us — and I give him a big old hug. And then I see K.O. and I told him, 'I told you I had a dream. I told you.' It was a special moment, especially doing it on Hat's birthday and [ending] a 10-year drought. It was a surreal moment.

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