Kurt Anderson (American football)

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Kurt Anderson
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Current position
TitleOffensive line coach
Biographical details
Born (1978-08-08) August 8, 1978 (age 45)
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Playing career
1997–2001 Michigan
2002 Arizona Cardinals
Position(s) Center
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2005 Indiana State (OT/TE)
2008 Eastern Michigan (TE)
2009–2012 Eastern Michigan (OL)
2013–2015 Buffalo Bills (OL/asst. OL)
2016–2017 Arkansas (OL)
2018–2023 Northwestern (OL)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships

Kurt Kristoffer Anderson (born August 8, 1978) is an American football coach and former player. His most recent job was offensive line coach with the Northwestern Wildcats, where he has coached two first round draft picks in Rashawn Slater, number thirteen overall in 2021 to the Los Angeles Chargers and Peter Skoronski number eleven overall in 2023 to the Tennessee Titans. He was dismissed by head coach David Braun after the 2023 season. He is the former offensive line coach at the University of Arkansas where he coached Frank Ragnow the number twenty overall pick in 2018 to the Detroit Lions. Anderson played college football at the University of Michigan. After his playing career, Anderson became a professional football coach. He served as the assistant offensive line coach for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League (NFL). In the 2015 season, Anderson took over head offensive line coaching duties for training camp and the first six weeks of the regular season for the suspended Aaron Kromer. [1]

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High school

Anderson attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois. He was a 1996 Parade All-American linebacker. [2] He earned a full scholarship to University of Michigan.

College career

Anderson was a two-year letterman on the offensive line (2000–2001) [3] for the Wolverines and was the starting center. He received the Hugh R. Rader Jr. Memorial Award [4] as the team's top offensive lineman and was selected All-Big Ten Conference by the conference coaches following the 2001 season. He was a member of the 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team that won the 1998 Rose Bowl, as well as a share of the 1997 national championship. He also played in the 1999 Citrus Bowl, the 2000 Orange Bowl, the 2001 Florida Citrus Bowl, and the 2002 Florida Citrus Bowls. He signed as an undrafted free agent with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League in 2002. [5]

Coaching career

In 2005, Anderson was an assistant coach at Indiana State where he worked with the offensive tackles and tight ends. In 2006, Anderson was a defensive quality control coach at The University of Michigan. [6] Anderson spent the 2007 [7] season as a graduate assistant coach for the offensive line. Anderson joined the Eastern Michigan staff on April 2, 2008 [8] as tight ends coach before shifting to the offensive line and run game coordinator in 2009. In 2010, Eastern Michigan finished with 2,080 yards rushing. The Eagles' ground attack was extremely effective during the 2011 campaign, Eastern Michigan rushed for 2,620 yards and 16 touchdowns on 575 carries for the 14th-best ground attack in the nation. A record two-year combined total of 4,700 yards for Eastern Michigan. On January 28, 2013, Anderson joined the Buffalo Bills staff as an offensive quality control coach. [9] On January 26, 2015, it was announced that Anderson was retained and promoted to assistant offensive line coach, by newly named head coach Rex Ryan. [10] In 2015, Anderson coached the Buffalo Bills offensive line that paved the way to 2,432 yards rushing, 152 yards rushing per game, 4.8 yards per attempt, and 19 rushing touchdowns; all marks were best in the NFL on the season. [11] On January 9, 2016, Anderson was introduced as the offensive line coach at the University of Arkansas by head coach Bret Bielema. [12] [13] Anderson developed Frank Ragnow, All-American and 20th Overall draft pick in the 2017 NFL draft. Ragnow is the highest paid center in the NFL. Others NFL lineman developed at Arkansas, are Hjalte Froholdt and Dan Skipper. In 2018, Anderson joined the Northwestern University Wildcats as a quality control assistant and was hired as the offensive line coach the following season. He helped lead the Wildcats to Big Ten West Championships in 2018 and 2020. He developed current Los Angeles Chargers Offensive Tackle Rashawn Slater, the 13th overall draft pick in 2020. Slater was a Pro Bowl performer as well as All- Pro in his rookie season. He also coached Peter Skoronski, who went to the Tennessee Titans with the 11th overall pick in the 2023 draft. Anderson coached the first five years of his career under head coach Pat Fitzgerald, who was fired in July 2023 in the wake of a hazing scandal within the program. Anderson coached the 2023 season under new head coach David Braun but was fired shortly after the end of the season.

Family

Anderson is married with five children, wife Jennifer and sons Hawken and Torin,daughter Dagny and twins Odin and Raina. His grandfather, Bob Nowaskey, played for the Chicago Bears of the NFL and the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). [14] His father, Donald Anderson, played college football at Northwestern University and in the NFL with the New Orleans Saints. [15] Kurt's older brother, Erick Anderson, is a fellow Michigan alumnus who won the Butkus Award in 1991 playing linebacker for the Wolverines and played in the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Football Team. Another older brother, Lars, played football at Indiana University Bloomington.

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