He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys and was selected in the second round of the 2000 NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams.
Shepherd has also been a member of the Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders, Edmonton Eskimos, Calgary Stampeders, Dallas Desperados, Utah Blaze and Georgia Force.
[1] In 1996, Shepherd recorded 40 tackles, one sack and four interceptions as a freshman at Tyler.
[2] During his junior year in 1998, he started two games and had 22 tackles, six pass deflections and two interceptions.
[6] On October 3, 2001, Shepherd was fined by the NFL, along with eight other Rams players for uniform violations.
[6] In a practice on October 25, Shepherd and teammate Yo Murphy got into a heated fight, which included punches being thrown and facemask grabbing.
kicking the other players sook[6] For the rest of the season, he suffered from a quadriceps injury.