🏈 Graded 2022 Bowman University Will Anderson Jr. #52 Chrome Prospects Rookie RC Football Card PSA 10 Gem Mint — Houston Texans #3 Overall Pick 2023 NFL Draft — University of Alabama — Two-Time Bednarik Award Winner — Two-Time CFP National Champion — PSA 10 Gem Mint

🏈 This is a 2022 Bowman University Will Anderson Jr. #52 Chrome Prospects Rookie Card, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint — the absolute pinnacle of the PSA grading scale, reserved for cards showing four sharp corners, perfect centering, flawless surface, and unblemished high-gloss finish. Bowman University Chrome is the hobby's premier pre-draft college football card product — a Bowman chromium-finish release issued while elite prospects are still in school, capturing players at the peak of their collegiate dominance before the NFL Draft transforms them into professional franchises' most valuable defensive assets. Will Anderson Jr. was not just a prospect in 2022 — he was the most dominant defensive college football player in the country, a two-time winner of the Bednarik Award (the highest individual honor in college football defense), a two-time national champion with the Alabama Crimson Tide, and the player around whom the 2023 NFL Draft's defensive conversation revolved entirely. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Tattnall County, Georgia — Where a Defensive Legend Began

🌟 Will Anderson Jr. was born on February 13, 2002, in Tattnall County, Georgia — a rural county in southeast Georgia that produced a pass rusher whose hand-speed, bend around the edge, and relentless motor set him apart at every level he played. His path to the University of Alabama came through the high school recruiting process that identified him as one of the top defensive prospects in the country — a player whose combination of explosion, athleticism, and football IQ made him an immediate target for Nick Saban and the Alabama coaching staff that has built the standard-setting defensive program in college football over the past two decades. The Tide won that recruitment, and what followed was a college career that re-defined what dominant at the college level could look like for an edge rusher. Condition: NOS.

🏆 University of Alabama — The Most Dominant College Defender in a Generation

🏆 Will Anderson Jr.'s college career at the University of Alabama was historic by any measure. He became only the second player in college football history to win the Bednarik Award — which honors the nation's best defensive player — twice, taking the award in both 2021 and 2022. His 2021 season produced 17.5 sacks — a number that led all of college football and that came against Power Five offensive tackles in the SEC, the most competitive conference in the sport. In 2022, facing increased double teams and game-planning designed specifically to neutralize him, Anderson still produced double-digit sacks while maintaining the elite pressure rate that had made him the most respected edge in the country. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Two-Time CFP National Champion — Winning on the Biggest Stage in College Football

⭐ Will Anderson Jr. won College Football Playoff National Championships in both 2021 and 2022 as a member of the Alabama Crimson Tide — back-to-back national titles that cemented Alabama's place as the premier program of the modern CFP era and that gave Anderson the championship pedigree collectors and fans associate with future NFL stars who carry winning into their professional careers. Playing alongside an Alabama roster loaded with future NFL Draft picks, Anderson was the most recognizable defensive player on the field — the standard-bearer for a defensive unit that prevented opponents from establishing running games and that defined what Alabama defense under Nick Saban looked like at its absolute best. Condition: NOS.

🌟 2023 NFL Draft — Houston Texans Select #3 Overall

🌟 The Houston Texans selected Will Anderson Jr. 3rd overall in the 2023 NFL Draft — a selection that paired him with 2nd overall pick C.J. Stroud, the quarterback, giving the Texans their most significant back-to-back draft selections in franchise history. The Anderson pick completed a defensive cornerstone acquisition for a franchise rebuilding toward relevance, and his early NFL production confirmed that the Bednarik Award evaluations were correct — Anderson was a legitimate NFL pass rusher from Day 1, applying the same relentless edge work against NFL tackles that he had used to dominate SEC offensive linemen at Alabama. Condition: NOS.

🏈 2022 Bowman University Chrome — The Chromium College Card Standard

🏈 Bowman University Chrome is the product that the hobby uses to capture elite college prospects before the NFL Draft — a chromium-finish card that carries all the visual qualities of Bowman's professional Chrome products applied to the collegiate setting made possible by NIL rules changes. Card #52 is Will Anderson Jr.'s entry in the 2022 set — issued during his second dominant collegiate season — graded at PSA 10 Gem Mint to document this generational defensive talent's pre-draft moment at the highest condition achievable. Condition: NOS.

🏈🌟 Will Anderson Jr. Tattnall County, Georgia. University of Alabama. Two-time Bednarik Award winner. Two-time CFP National Champion. Houston Texans #3 overall pick, 2023 NFL Draft. 2022 Bowman University Chrome #52 Prospects RC, PSA 10 Gem Mint. Condition: NOS.