He also was a member of the Toronto Argonauts and BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
In basketball, he set the national high school record for season field-goal percentage as a senior.
In the season finale against Stanford University, he replaced an ineffective Brown with the team trailing 0-24 at halftime.
Bedford led a remarkable third quarter comeback that put the Golden Bears in a position to win the game, but sprained his ankle while celebrating a touchdown, forcing him to miss most of the fourth quarter and having to watch kicker Leland Rix miss a late 30-yard field goal in a 22-24 loss.
Brown would be the player chosen to finish the game, but also start in the season finale against Stanford University, engineering a 17-11 upset win.
[5] On June 30, he was traded to the San Diego Chargers in exchange for a draft choice.