He was a first-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs and played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
[1] He grew up 10 minutes from the Pro Football Hall of Fame where Jack Lambert, Dick Butkus, and Mean Joe Greene were enshrined.
[3] As a sophomore, Snow led the 1987 Michigan State Spartans football team with 110 tackles, won the Tommy Love Award as the Spartans' most improved player, and helped lead the team to a Big Ten Conference championship and the top-ranked defense in the country against the run (61.5 yards per game).
[4][5] At the end of the regular season, Snow was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team linebacker on the 1987 All-Big Ten Conference football team.
[7] He was selected by both the AP and UPI as a first-team player on the 1988 All-Big Ten Conference football team.
[8][9] He also received first-team honors from The Sporting News on the 1988 All-America college football team.
[14] [15] Snow was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round (13 overall pick) of the 1990 NFL draft.
[1] He was arrested in April 1993 by the Kansas City police for allegedly threatening a group of golfers with a gun after a golf ball struck his car.
[1] In 1995, he attempted a comeback with the Cleveland Browns where his former college coach Nick Saban was defensive coordinator.
[20] After leaving the NFL, Snow signed a free-agent contract with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1995,[17] and played during the 1996 season for the Rhein Fire in the World League of American Football (WLAF).
"[21] George Perles recalled: "Offenses simply dreaded playing against him because he didn't just make the tackle; he damaged people.