How Houston Texans’ Will Anderson Jr. Spent His First $1,000,000

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Houston Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. quickly banked his first milly after being drafted in 2023—but how did he spend it? From his Terminator chain to dropping half-a-mil on his parents’ house, Will Anderson Jr. splashed the cash he earned in the NFL.Credits:Director: Jeremy ClowneyDirector of Photography: Joshua BagnallEditor: Chris JonesTalent: Will Anderson Jr.Producer: Ben MathenySenior Producer: Lizzy HalberstadtCreative Producer: Kristen DeVoreLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Paige KefferCamera Operator: Marc ClancyGaffer: Art VillasenorAudio Engineer: Morgan OrionProduction Assistant: Cristina PandoHair &amp; Make-Up: Glynn ReneePost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Andy Morell

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00:00What's up GQ?

00:01I'm Will Anderson for the Houston, Texas defensive end,

00:03and this is how I spend my first meal.

00:1110K.

00:15On my sisters.

00:16Got all of them some purses.

00:17You know, little brother having to take care

00:19of the big sisters.

00:20They did a lot for me growing up,

00:21so I bought all of them purses from Coach

00:23and different colors and stuff like that.

00:25So, you know, that was a smooth 10K for them.

00:27Get them out the way first.

00:3060K, you know, I had to get fresh for the draft.

00:34My boy Leo hooked me up with the Terminator chain.

00:37You know what I'm saying?

00:38I had the red dot on it, iFlash.

00:40I don't really got to get in the chains too much,

00:42but this one was a must-need.

00:43You know, I had to step out on the red carpet and look fresh

00:45and really just pop it for the one time.

00:47The concept coming up with the chain was basically,

00:48like, that was my nickname in college

00:50just because I dumbed it, I played football,

00:52and I was like, bro, I need something to, like,

00:54show the world, like, you know,

00:56I can pop it a little bit, like, that's my name.

00:58Like, I want something that represent me

00:59around my neck, and he came up with the Terminator idea.

01:02And at first, like, it was going to be like,

01:04half me, half the Terminator.

01:07But it was like, all right, it's too much, too much.

01:09So we just went half the Terminator with the red eye.

01:11He's sitting over everything, like,

01:12drawing ideas and everything like that.

01:14And I was like, bro, this is clean.

01:16Like, I ain't gonna hold you.

01:17That was the best looking chain in the drive that year.

01:19Hands down.

01:20And I'm about to give my credit.

01:23Top five chain of the drive.

01:28All right, 300 on the car.

01:32I spent 300 bands on my Maybach 2024,

01:35and I gifted that myself for, like, all my accomplishment,

01:38all my hard work that I, you know,

01:40that I put into everything.

01:41I felt like that's something I deserved.

01:42I don't really, like, really gift myself a lot of stuff,

01:45but when I went in the dealership and I seen it,

01:47I had to call the bank immediately, call my advisor,

01:49call my parents, they're like, this the car for me.

01:51Space gray, white interior, blue steering wheel,

01:55V12 engine, it was a must.

01:57I was like, yeah, this gonna be the showstopper right here.

01:59And, you know, people be saying, you can't drive a Maybach,

02:01you gotta have a driver.

02:02I am the driver.

02:02Oh, ain't nobody driving that one but me.

02:04I just got a Shelby Mustang.

02:06That was, that's the last one I'm getting.

02:07And I got a vintage Bronco.

02:08Them two, they both like this Britney blue color.

02:11They smooth.

02:12I love it.

02:13Vintage, old school.

02:14Them the last two I'm getting and I'm done.

02:16It's Vintage's on the outside,

02:17but it got new everything in the inside.

02:19People like them old schools though, for sure.

02:21Cause I'm from Georgia, you know, everybody,

02:22it's like, young boy, what you doing with that?

02:23You don't know what to do with that.

02:24I'm like, man, you want it?

02:25Like, you can, you can have it.

02:3025K on my dog, Hendrix.

02:32Shout out Jungle Bully, Kennels.

02:35Man, that was the most expensive dog I ever bought.

02:37Ain't gonna lie, but it was worth it though.

02:38He got all three traits, Merle, Tick,

02:41Brendel, everything.

02:43So, he my boy, I love him.

02:45He huge.

02:46His head like this big.

02:48So if you going into breeding and you breeding dogs,

02:50you know, a lot of people love like the Merle dogs.

02:52Those are dogs with like the different colors

02:54and stuff like that.

02:55And then Tick is like the dogs with like the spots on them

02:57and stuff like that.

02:58He got all those traits, bro.

03:00He can reproduce like whatever color, whatever Merle,

03:02whatever Tick it is.

03:03That's what make him special.

03:04But man, he a good temperament.

03:06Great with the kids, like great with my fam.

03:08Like growing up, my dad used to breed pit bulls.

03:11Ever since then, I fell in love with pit bulls, man.

03:13He bred them, let them in the house.

03:15And I was like, I want to do this one day.

03:16I want to breed dogs, have my own little thing going on.

03:19My dad be helping me over shit and stuff like that.

03:21So it's been fun.

03:22It's a lot of responsibility, man.

03:23It's a lot of responsibility.

03:24I had to actually ship the dog I had down to my dad

03:27and let him take care of it.

03:28Because knowing the season, they get busy,

03:30whatever like that.

03:30But I'm not buying no more dogs.

03:35Next one is 500.

03:37I spent on my parents' crib.

03:40I feel like this one is like one of the most important things

03:42you do when you first get your check, man.

03:44I feel like, you know, your parents,

03:45they invest so much into you.

03:47They give you the world.

03:48They take you, run you up and down the road.

03:50They be tired after work.

03:51They sacrifice going out with their friends and everything

03:54to come to your games and stuff like that.

03:56I had to drop, you know, 500 on them in their house, man.

03:58They deserve it.

03:59They took care of me and my sisters.

04:00That's a lot of people to take care of.

04:02I just want to see that big smile on my mom's face

04:04because she's a hero.

04:05She's a super mom.

04:06It's a lot more where that came from.

04:08So I'm really happy to have done this

04:09for both of my mom and my dad.

04:11You know, I feel like that's what it's all about,

04:12especially me.

04:13Like, I'm really big on family.

04:14To be a blessing to them after they've been a blessing to me

04:15is just, it makes me happy and it makes me just want to,

04:18you know, keep having that big heart for them

04:20because they deserve it.

04:2350K on a shopping spree.

04:27So this is probably the most dangerous thing

04:29I probably could have did.

04:30And I was a rookie, you know what I'm saying?

04:31I ain't know too much.

04:33I ain't know I had a limit on my card,

04:34so I felt embarrassed because I was going to some of these stores,

04:37card declining.

04:38I'm calling my mom, like, what's going on?

04:40I was on the phone with the bank at every store I went on to,

04:42trying to get my max up or whatever like that.

04:44But I had a good time.

04:45It was fun.

04:46And I went in Prada, that was the first thing I got.

04:49Shout out Prada, you already know.

04:51Got some more jackets, got some jewelry, got some clothes.

04:55And then I got this varsity jacket.

04:57And that varsity jacket was $10,000 by itself.

05:00And I don't even wear it, that's the crazy thing.

05:02I wore it one time.

05:03I'm a peace type of guy.

05:04Like, my thing is, I like collecting and then building the outfit at home.

05:07Unless I'm going to like a big time event, I don't really like go buy a whole outfit.

05:11So I'm a peace guy, so I just buy different stuff if I like it or not like that.

05:15That was $50,000 on wardrobe.

05:2120 bands on my mom's birthday, April 4th, a day to remember.

05:24It was another surprise.

05:25She liked surprises.

05:27After I found out she threw her own surprise party, I was like, bro, never again.

05:32So me and my sisters got together and we threw her like this big party at like this bar area.

05:36And she had the best time of her life.

05:38She don't drink no nothing, but we got her to open up that night and she had a great time.

05:42I was a little nervous at first, because I ain't never seen my mom, you know,

05:45in that light before.

05:46She had like the biggest smile on her face and she was just like so amazed.

05:50And then the rest of the night, we don't really know.

05:53We was all sleepwalking out of there.

05:55Just know that.

05:5930K, I took my family, my niece and nephews to Disney and Universal Studios down in Florida.

06:05And I can't cuss, but that was a S show.

06:08Just know that.

06:09But it was fun, man.

06:10They had a really great time and the kids acted a fool.

06:13And all we did was like dance and party around the house.

06:16I got a big family.

06:17So like my sisters, I got four girls and one boy and they wreaked havoc around the whole house

06:23and tore it up from the top all the way to the bottom.

06:26But it was fun.

06:27Growing up, like we didn't really have like the means to like be going to Disney.

06:30I feel like that was always one dream of ours to like do a family trip to Disney and Universal together.

06:35And like now that I got the money, of course, to do it.

06:38I was like, why not do it now?

06:39And everybody was on board with it.

06:41And I just wanted to make that dream come true for my family.

06:46Last but not least, I spent a couple of hundred on some miscellaneous things.

06:49Turkey Leg Hut, Mortal Comeback Arcade System.

06:52I had to see what Turkey Leg Hut was about.

06:54It was like the biggest place in Houston.

06:56They got the best food, you know, Houston known for its food.

06:58And the Turkey Leg, I'm not lying, was probably like this big full of rice and macaroni and cheese.

07:04And then my Mortal Comeback Arcade is broken right now.

07:08My nieces and nephews broke it.

07:10So a couple of hundred down the drain right now.

07:12And then me and my pops went down to Florida, went fishing, had a fishing trip there.

07:16We did like a little fishing tournament together.

07:17Who was going to catch the most fish?

07:18And you know, I won, of course, because I'm the best fisherman in the family.

07:21Pops, if you see this, just know you be walking home after every fishing tournament.

07:25We got to bet whoever don't catch the most fish got to walk home.

07:28He be walking.

07:30So, man, like, no, that's me.

07:33With all this being said, though, I had a lot of learning curves with spending money.

07:36Make sure you know how much money you got in your account.

07:38What's your daily limit?

07:39You know, just be mindful of the purchases you make.

07:41Do you really want these purchases?

07:43It's a blessing to have it, but also just remain humble.

07:46Making sure that you stay on top of the people that's been watching your money,

07:49that's in charge of your money.

07:50And man, like rock out, have fun with it.

07:51You deserve it, but be smart with it.

07:53Appreciate it, GQ, for having me.

07:55See y'all next time.

07:58Bye.

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