[2] Truluck attended Spring Valley High School, where he lettered in football three times and was an all-state and all-county linebacker in his senior year.
He spent his high school years growing up at the Lakeside Family & Children's Center in Rockland County, New York, a group foster home that he still visited in the offseason.
As sophomore, Truluck had a successful season in which he recorded 64 tackles, six sacks, seven tackles-for-losses and two blocked field goal attempts in 10 games as a defensive end.
After playing at Division III SUNY-Cortland, Truluck was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.
In his rookie year there, Truluck recorded nine tackles and three sacks, winning the Defensive Player of the Week award for his debut.
In 2008 Truluck returned to the Arena Football league through a dispersal draft, being selected by the Georgia Force, during that season he amassed 30 tackles and 5.5 sacks.