Willie Anderson, the Bengals franchise right tackle, has as many credentials to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the 1,252 yards Corey Dillon averaged running behind him in Dillon’s first six seasons at the turn of the century when Anderson set the tone of grime and punishment on the right side in a bone-crunching ballet.
In three of his 13 seasons that were played in a kind of golden age of the pass rusher, where the top 13 all-time sackers worked during Anderson’s run from 1996-2008, he allowed no sacks. While helping Dillon produce two of the greatest single-game rushing efforts ever, Anderson blanked sacks artists ranging from the Minister of Defense (Reggie White) in a one-night revival against the Packers to T.