At Willingham High School, he was a star in football along with basketball, track and field, and baseball.
He is the first and only athlete from South Carolina to have won the award along with the first Gamecock to have struck out 100 batters in a season.
In his senior season, Bryant set a school record with a 98-yard punt return against North Carolina State, assisting the team to a 31–21 win in what turned out to be their only victory of the year.
[3] After knee injury during the pre-season with the Vikings kept him on the team's practice squad in 1967, Bryant spent his rookie season with the Des Moines Warriors from the minor Professional Football League of America (PFLA).
A season later he began his career with the Vikings in 1968, which was also the same year that Paul Krause was traded to the team.
Bryant was used as both a defensive back and a returner on punts and kicks for his rookie season, and he soon became known for blowing kisses to the crowd.
[8] In the 1976 NFC Championship on December 26 against the Los Angeles Rams, he scored the first points of the game when he returned a blocked Tom Dempsey field goal kick 90 yards for a touchdown.
After retiring, he lived in Minnesota for five years before settling in Columbia, South Carolina and worked in sales for Harmon Autoglass, an auto glass replacement business.