He played college football for Florida A&M and was selected in the seventh round of the 2013 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions.
Hepburn attended North Rockland High School in Thiells, New York, where he competing in wrestling and played on the football team.
[1][2] He aided his team to a NYSPHSAA Class AA West title and earned Journal News first-team all-county honors.
In his senior year, he put up 86 tackles (9.5 for loss), 5.5 sacks, 7 passes deflected and a forced fumble and was a first-team All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) selection.
[2] At Florida A&M, he majored in biochemistry and was part of an undergraduate research team investigating cancer treatments using copper.
[16] As a senior in 2012, Hepburn and his team presented their findings at an American Chemical Society conference in San Diego.