Wright attended Albany High School, where he focused on track and field until his senior season, when he made the football team.
He played at wide receiver and cornerback, where his athletic ability allowed him to cover opposing players one-on-one without any additional support.
He was initially a defensive back, but because of his poor tackling and lack of run support abilities, he was moved to wide receiver as a sophomore.
Wright developed slowly on the offensive side of the ball and didn't see much playing time, until becoming a starter as a senior after replacing the graduated Lawyer Tillman.
In the season opener against the University of the Pacific, he registered single-game school records with 263 receiving yards (52.6 average) and 4 touchdowns.
Wright finished in the school's all-time top ten career receiving list with 56 receptions for 1,320 yards and 11 touchdowns.
He was intended to become a deep threat wide receiver, to complement running back Emmitt Smith, chosen in the first round of the same draft.
As well as Smith, he also had a long (40 days) rookie contract holdout, that forced him to miss most of training camp and the first two preseason games.
On October 13, 1992, he was traded to the Los Angeles Raiders in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick (#96-Ron Stone), when he still had no receptions following the first five games of the season.
In 2002, he served as the interim head coach of the River City Renegades, a National Indoor Football League team.
He then took a role as the athletic director and head football coach at San Jacinto Christian Academy in Amarillo, Texas, in which he served from 2008 t o 2010.