Adrian Peterson's injured hamstring has impacted him both physically and mentally.

Peterson has only carried the ball 23 times over the past two games.

"They didn’t know anything about it until maybe like last week," said Peterson. "That’s when I really felt, OK, I’m starting to feel something now that could slow me down a little bit. I really didn’t say anything to those guys until like last week. Just told them there’s tightness. It’s more so when I run, I was kind of hesitant to stretch out and really stretch the hamstring, thinking that I was going to pull [it]. So that’s how I kind of had it in my mind. But that had nothing to do with the coaches decisions."