As a junior in 2002, he won the Outland Trophy as that year's best college football interior lineman, and was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American.
[3] Long was selected by the Florida Tuskers on the UFL Premiere Season Draft in 2009 and signed with the team on September 3.
The pair subject themselves to the 9,000-year-old rites of passage of the Tatooya tribe in the Colombian Amazon to begin their journey into manhood, including ceremonial vomiting, blowdart hunting and ritual whipping.
Just before midnight on January 21, 2008, Long crashed his 2005 Ford Mustang into a rock wall while driving too fast on an I-40 on-ramp near downtown Nashville.
Long was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he suffered injuries that left him in critical condition.