[2] Okpro first played youth football with Alexander Park as a running back and safety from 1992 to 1997.
He then played for the North Shore Lions during high school from 1998 to 1999 where he made the All-Star Team in 1999.
[2][5] He attended training camp with the team in 2009, but was part of the Eskimos' final cuts on June 25, 2009.
[2][6] Okpro first joined the Edmonton Huskies as the team's defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator in 2013.
On July 17, 2017, it was announced that Okpro had joined the York Lions as the team's defensive coordinator, reuniting him with Warren Craney, who was his coach at Concordia.