Career
He was drafted in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and played professionally for the NFL"s Buffalo Bills. Farris was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, where he played high school football for the Santa Margarita Eagles.
Farris attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he played for the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins football team from 1995 to 1998.
The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Farris in the third round (seventy-fourth pick overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft, but he never appeared in a regular season game for the Steelers. In 2001, he played in three regular season games for the Buffalo Bills, and started one.