Wright played college football for the Florida Gators, winning a national championship in 1997.
[1] He attended North Miami High School and Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
[4] That same year, he also won the Jim Thorpe Award, recognizing the best defensive back in college football,[5] and was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1995 and 1996.
[5] Wright was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for four consecutive years, and was a CFA Scholar-Athlete in 1996.
As an alumnus, he returned to Gainesville to lead the same cheer during celebrations after the Gators' national championships in 2006 and 2008[8] Wright was undrafted in the 1997 NFL draft,[9] but was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as a free agent.