He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and selected by the Bengals in the ninth round of the 1983 NFL draft.
The most notorious instance of Wilson's relapse into cocaine usage was on the eve of Super Bowl XXIII in 1989, where the Bengals were to play the San Francisco 49ers.
Twenty minutes later, his position coach, Jim Anderson, found him in the bathroom, deep in the throes of a cocaine high.
[3] Wilson was the team's third leading rusher during the season, and had scored 2 touchdowns in their two playoff games prior to the Super Bowl.
An attorney representing Wilson claimed that the expelled player was ready to unveil a "shroud of truth" regarding drug use amongst other Bengals, but nothing like that ever happened.