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Alabama’s Will Anderson Jr. dominates blockers, but sisters were tougher

FILE - Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. (31) lines up against Mercer during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Sept. 11, 2021, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)
FILE - Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. (31) lines up against Mercer during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Sept. 11, 2021, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File) FILE - Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr. (31) lines up against Mercer during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Sept. 11, 2021, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File)

Will Anderson Jr. has muscled past or blown by blockers with enough regularity to become a unanimous All-America.

His five older sisters were tougher to dominate.

“I always tell people, they terrorized me every day,” Alabama’s sophomore linebacker said, laughing. “Every day of my life, they terrorized me.”

“But,” he added, “it’s all fun.”

It’s all good-natured fun in the Anderson family, as close-knit as ever since those days packing into a three-bedroom house in suburban Atlanta, where baby brother shared a room with two of his sisters.