Dres Anderson found out first from an alert on Twitter. Calvin Johnson was going off against the Dallas Cowboys in 2013 and there was a chance that the single-game receiving record that belonged to former Rams receiver Flipper Anderson, Dres' father, might fall.

Dres Anderson wasn’t watching the Detroit-Dallas game then, but once he saw the alert, he went searching for a way to find the game on television. Then he texted his father to make sure he knew what was going on.

“I texted him like, ‘Oh my goodness, are you watching this,’ “ Dres Anderson said. “He’s like, ‘Yeah.'"

Flipper Anderson had 15 receptions for 336 yards and a touchdown for St. Louis in an overtime game against New Orleans. He broke the then-record held by former Kansas City receiver Stephone Paige by 25 yards.

No one had even come close to Anderson since then -- at least until Johnson started catching pass after pass from Matthew Stafford on Oct. 27, 2013. That’s when Dres, now a prospect trying to make the NFL himself, reached out to his dad.

“It was very stressful,” Dres told ESPN at the combine in February. “I feel like Calvin Johnson had, he was either in the high 200s or low 300s in the fourth quarter and he had the opportunity to break it.

“It is just something my dad has held on to for so long, so I didn’t want to see it go down.”

Johnson came awful close, as the Lions needed all of the 329 yards the Lions receiver ended up gaining to beat Dallas, 31-30. It is a game that is remembered more with the Lions for Stafford’s fake spike touchdown with 14 seconds remaining. Johnson had 39 of his 329-yard game on that final drive, when he had a chance to break the record but came up seven yards short.

Johnson does, though, hold the record for the most yards in a regulation game since Flipper Anderson’s feat happened in overtime.

That didn’t matter, though. The Andersons celebrated by phone after Detroit’s win and it had nothing to do with the Lions' victory.

“Oh yeah,” Dres Anderson said. “We called each other happy, like, ‘Yes, it still stands.’

“He’s like, ‘Yeah, man, your father’s record is still up there.'"

Dres Anderson, a 6-foot-1, 187-pound receiver out of Utah, is rated by Scouts Inc. as the No. 26 receiver and No. 178 overall prospect in the draft. In his career with the Utes, he had 2,077 yards and 17 touchdowns.