Wright attended Wayzata High School, where he played football, basketball, track, and hockey.

[1] Wright was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Dallas Cowboys after the 1981 NFL draft.

Because of an injury to Kurt Petersen, he was the right guard in the offensive line that blocked on Tony Dorsett's record 99-yard touchdown run against the Minnesota Vikings.

On August 26, 1983, he was traded to the Baltimore Colts in exchange for a sixth round draft choice (#144-Kurt Ploeger).

In 1984, when the team moved to Indianapolis, he replaced an injured Chris Hinton at left tackle and started nine games.

[9] Wright founded Cloudburst, a company that was the first to provide NFL sideline mist cooling.

[citation needed] In August, 2010, Wright appeared as a contestant on the 22nd season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor.

11/2023 Wright authored his memoir, Aggressively Human, that won both the PenCraft and the Fire Bird Literary Awards.