Steen attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale He played both offense and defense on the St. Thomas Aquinas High School football team.

[1] Steen enrolled at Vanderbilt University in 2018, playing four games at defensive end as a freshman for their football team, recording one tackle.

Steen started thirty-four of thirty-eight games played at Vanderbilt, receiving All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) honors twice.

[2] In 2022, Steen was a graduate transfer to the University of Alabama to play his final season of eligibility for the Crimson Tide.

Steen's grandfather, Sergeant Rodney Maxwell Davis, was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism above and beyond the call of duty in 1967, during the Vietnam War.