{"id":1040080,"date":"2024-02-09T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1040080"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:50:55","slug":"tides-will-anderson-named-defensive-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/tides-will-anderson-named-defensive-rookie-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tide&#8217;s Will Anderson Named Defensive Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Alabama Crimson Tide superstar pass rusher Will Anderson Jr. has been named the NFL&#8217;s Defensive Rookie of the Year at an awards ceremony on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Take the stage 51\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8U2XaFsOTL\">pic.twitter.com\/8U2XaFsOTL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoustonTexans\/status\/1755782404659147185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anderson, who was the No. 3 overall pick to the Houston Texans in the 2023 NFL Draft, had 45 total tackles along with seven sacks and ten tackles for loss in a rookie campaign that saw Houston make the playoffs for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got that dawg in him \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/McxrEJv3Cl\">pic.twitter.com\/McxrEJv3Cl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoustonTexans\/status\/1756000303667962118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He is one of the best defensive players in Alabama history, ranking second in program history in sacks with 34.5 in just three years at Alabama trailing only the great Derrick Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson was twice awarded the Bronko Nagurski Trophy during his time at Alabama, presented annually to the nation&#8217;s top defensive player.<\/p>\n<p>His teammate and quarterback CJ Stroud, who was the No. 2 in the same draft class, was awarded with the Offensive Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Pro Football Writers of America named Anderson&#8217;s coach, another former Alabama superstar in DeMeco Ryans, the NFL&#8217;s Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is going to continue to wreak havoc on the league as he progresses in a career that is just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Alabama Crimson Tide superstar pass rusher Will Anderson Jr. has been named the NFL&#8217;s Defensive Rookie of the Year at an awards ceremony on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/tides-will-anderson-named-defensive-rookie-of-the-year\/\" title=\"Tide&#8217;s Will Anderson Named Defensive Rookie of the Year\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":960211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,147,206],"tags":[225,1122,711,212,406,464],"class_list":{"0":"post-1040080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","8":"category-alabama","9":"category-featured-news","10":"category-nfl","11":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","12":"tag-derrick-thomas","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-will-anderson","16":"tag-will-anderson-jr"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/100822_MFB_AndersonWi_TexasAM_CTP5193.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040089,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040080\/revisions\/1040089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}