On Friday, head coach Bob Stoops announced that Anderson, who was being counted on for a role in the OU backfield in 2016, would miss the entire 2016 season after suffering a neck injury in the team’s final intrasquad scrimmage of preseason training camp on Thursday.
“I hate it for Rodney,” the Sooners’ head coach said in a statement reported by the Tulsa World and other regional media outlets on Friday. “It didn’t appear to be much of an injury at the time…but we found out this afternoon that he will be out for the year.