He previously played for Hawthorn, North Melbourne and the Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL).

[1] Anderson was born in Katherine, Northern Territory into a family of Indigenous Australian descent (Warramungu)[2] and moved to Darwin at the age of 12.

[3] His grandfather, Jim Anderson, is a member of the Northern Territory Team of the Century[4] and an NTFL Hall of Fame inductee.

When he was 16, he moved to western Sydney to spend a season playing for GWS's TAC Cup team, while being educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview.

Anderson who was contracted until the end of 2016 requested a trade for a chance to move to another club and get more opportunities for regular senior football.

Injuries continued to hammer Anderson's progress in the AFL, but as he has got older he has managed to spring large sequences of games together.