A former Tulane football player has been sentenced to 10 years in prison stemming from a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub.

Ray Boudreaux

A jury convicted 23-year-old Ray Boudreaux Junior last month of aggravated battery and attempted manslaughter, but acquitted him of a more serious charge of attempted second-degree murder.

Orleans Parish Criminal Judge Arthur Hunter sentenced Boudreaux Friday and also ordered an appeal bond of $200,000.

Four men were treated for stab wounds following the altercation outside the Utopia nightclub in September 2007. One of those men sustained brain damage.

Boudreaux claimed he was trying to protect himself after he was attacked in front of the club. Tulane suspended the one-time running back from the school and the team following his arrest.