He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning consensus All-American honors in 1999.
He is currently Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at Round Hill Capital in London and a member of the Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees.
His tackle total was 48 (20 solo) and he caused and recovered a fumble, blocked a field goal and broke up two passes.
Everything began to click for Short as he got used to his new position and he totaled a season-high 10 tackles, and caused and recovered a fumble in the season finale with Michigan State.
On the original list of Butkus Award candidates, Short made stops (42 solo), fourth on the team, despite missing the better part of three games with an ankle injury.
Short led the Lions resurgence and topped the squad in tackles en route to first-team All-Big Ten honors.
The two players brawled after Shockey, a rookie, refused to sing his college fight song—a training camp hazing ritual.
[1] [2] Short was in the news again after he broke New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington's wrist during a tackle in the 2003 Giants-Jets preseason game.
[5] Short left Goldman Sachs in April 2013 to co-found World Business Partners UAE,[6] a Middle East lender specializing in loans for small- and medium-sized companies which comply with Islam's ban on interest, along with the religion's bans on investments in alcohol, firearms, and other products.
In 2017, he moved to Round Hill Capital, a fully integrated real estate investment and management firm, where he is Director of Mergers and Acquisitions.