Anthony Miller arrived in San Diego as the Chargers’ first-round pick out of Tennessee in 1988, a dual-sport track-and-field guy whose speed had already shown up on the college circuit. He started as a rookie opposite fellow first-year receiver Quinn Early, catching 36 passes for 526 yards, then exploded the next season. In 1989, he led the team with 75 receptions for a career-high 1,252 yards and 10 touchdowns, earning his first Pro Bowl nod and finishing second in the NFL’s “Fastest Man” competition. At 5-foot-11 and about 190 pounds, he was a serious threat who could stretch the field, track the ball down the sideline, and turn short catches into bigger gains once he got into the open.

He stayed productive through the early 1990s. After another Pro Bowl season in 1990 (63 catches, 933 yards, seven scores), he dealt with a knee issue that slowed his start in 1992, then still finished with 72 receptions for 1,060 yards and seven touchdowns while leading the AFC in receiving yards and making the Pro Bowl again. In 1993, his final year with the Chargers, he caught 84 passes for 1,162 yards and seven touchdowns and earned another Pro Bowl selection. He led the club in receiving in four of his six seasons and finished as the team’s leading receiver scorer during that stretch with 37 touchdowns. He was the kind of receiver who forced defenses to respect the deep ball, then used his quickness to create separation underneath.

After the 1993 season, Miller signed with the Denver Broncos. In his six years in San Diego, he had piled up 374 receptions for 5,582 yards and 37 touchdowns, production that still ranks among the best for a Chargers receiver.

In 2026, the franchise inducted him into its Hall of Fame, recognizing the speedy first-round pick who had given the offense a legitimate deep threat for half a dozen seasons in the late 1980s and early 1990s.