“I was a basketball player,” said the 6-foot-3, 297-pound Anderson. “I played little league football and I just got tired of it. I wanted to focus on basketball and I was on the AAU circuit. I was really trying to go to school for that. My junior year, I only got some small D-II (basketball) offers, nothing big, and nothing real promising. Right before my senior year, right before football started, I walked up to my high school coach, Coach (Dennis) Scuderi, I got all the equipment and put it on. He wanted me to play tight end/defensive end. We had our first practice and I was playing D-end and I broke through the line and disrupted a bunch of plays and he said, ‘You’re going to stay at defensive end.’ I was 6-foot-2, 195 and I hadn’t touched a weight my whole life because I was always in the basketball gym. I was just find ball, go see ball.”