He was the first three-time captain of the Haskell football team, where he scored thirteen touchdowns of 60 yards or more.

[5] Weller participated in a 1930 charity football game for both teams, representing Chilocco Indian School in the second half and Arkansas City Junior College in the first.

James Naismith, who invented the sport of basketball in 1891, called Weller "the most expert dribbler I have ever seen.

In 1933, he played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Boston Redskins under his former coach at Haskell, William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz, as well as with two other American Indian football players, "Chief" Larry Johnson and John Orien Crow.

He died on April 17, 1979, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, following a heart attack he sustained while playing golf with former teammate and former Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs John Orien Crow.