AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Longhorns football great Jordan Shipley has been hospitalized after an accident on his ranch.
What we know:
Shipley was reportedly operating a machine on his ranch near Burnet when the machine caught on fire.
He was severely burned and driven to a local hospital before being taken to Austin on a medical transport flight.
A statement from
 Shipley’s family says he is in critical but stable condition.
The backstory:
Jordan Shipley’s new coffee, ice cream shop in Burnet
It has been over a decade since Jordan Shipley played in a National Championship game with the Texas Longhorn football team. Since then, he has turned his focus to scooping ice cream and serving coffee, where his football career began.
40-year-old Shipley is the Texas Longhorns football program’s all-time leading receiver.
He earned Associated Press All-America honors in 2009 and had 248 career catches in college for 3,191 yards and 33 touchdowns.
Shipley was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round in 2010.Â
He played three seasons in the NFL with the Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Source: Information from reporting by Dennis de la Pena, the Associated Press and FOX Sports.