ATLANTA—Walking into the tunnel at halftime in Week 16 at Arizona, Rams veteran center John Sullivan pulled aside C.J. Anderson, who had signed just days earlier, and asked the one question that has followed the soon-to-be 28-year-old running back since: “How on Earth were you available!?”
Anderson’s cliff-noted answer: He was wedged out by younger (cheaper) running backs in Denver, never got on the field in Carolina thanks to Christian McCaffrey playing 91.3 percent of the snaps and was sacrificed after just one week in Oakland when injuries demanded reinforcements along the offensive line.
The Rams only signed Anderson because, with No.