Peterson is too much of a talent to pass on if he slips to 12. Sure, you can say that he is injury proned and that we would be better off grabbing a running back later on, but he is very talented, has HOF potensial, and does NOT have an additude like Willis did/does. I think that an average back can be a good back with a good line, but a good/great back like Peterson can be an excellent top 5 back with a good line.
I think we are better off at D-Line than most people think and we just need to give players time to devolop. I also think that after reading reviews of Ashton Y.'s draft status last year, he would be a top corner 5 corner in this draft. Many people think that we are planning on drafting a top 5 corner to take over and start aside McGee, while we already have that PLUS a year of NFL experience with Ashton. I think Ashton will impress many as a starting corner in this league and there that we do not need to take a corner in the first 2 rounds of the draft.
If Peterson is not on the board(which he probally will not be) i would take Willis because he is a freak and LB is a postition of need right now. I think we will pick someone up in the draft to start or get playing time at one of the linebacker postitions. If we do pick up on Peterson by some miricle, I think that we will take a LB in the 2nd or 3rd rounds of this draft.