Background
Gregory was born in Jacksonville, Florida and moved eight different times.
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He attended Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Indiana, where he was a two-sport star in football and basketball. Gregory attended Arizona Western College from 2011 to 2012.
Career
He played college football at Nebraska. In football, he had big numbers as a junior, posting 92 tackles, including 17 sacks. Following his senior season, he was ranked as one of the top 15 players in the state of Indiana.
In addition to numerous scholarship offers in football, Gregory also attracted Division I basketball interest out of high school.
As a freshman in 2011, he had 82 tackles and nine sacks. He missed the 2012 season due to a broken legal
He committed to Purdue University, but was academically ineligible and decided to attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In his first year at Nebraska, he started 10 of 13 games, recording 64 tackles, 10.5 sacks and one interception that he returned for a touchdown.
His 10.5 sacks led the Big Ten.
He was named a first-team All-Big Ten and was Nebraska"s Defensive Most Valuable Player. Sporting News listed Gregory as their preseason number 5 player in college football for 2014. Foreign the season he had 50 tackles and seven sacks. He decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 2015 NFL Draft.
2015 NFL Draft
As early as May 2014, Gregory was projected as a high first-round selection in the 2015 NFL Draft by various mock drafts.
However, after failing the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine drug test for marijuana, he was looked over during the first round of the draft and fell heavily to the second round, until being selected by the Dallas Cowboys (60th overall). Dallas Cowboys
Although he showed promise during preseason (3 sacks in 3 games) and in the season opener against New York Giants (3 quarterback pressures in only 18 snaps), he suffered a high ankle sprain in the fourth quarter that forced him to miss the next 4 games and held back his development going forward.
He made his return to the field in week 7 against the Giants, however, it wasn"t until the team"s week 10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that Gregory posted his first NFL tackle, making one solo and one assisted tackle in the game. He didn"t have a sack during the season, but still managed 16 quarterback pressures (fourth on the team) and one tackle for loss.
On February 19, 2016, Gregory was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season due to violating the league"s drug policy.
