Robert Landers is known to almost everyone as BB.
Asked if anyone calls him by his given name, Landers replied with a laugh, “My professors. That’s about it.”
Landers shared the same first name as his father, who died 10 years ago.
“A lot of his friends called him Bobby or Bo,” he said, “so they called me ‘B’ or ‘BB.’ ”
For an undersized nose tackle on a defense that calls itself the Silver Bullets, “BB” is a fitting nickname. Landers is listed at 6 feet 1 and 285 pounds.
That’s a stretch.