Education
Coleman attended Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois.
Coleman attended Oak Forest High School in Oak Forest, Illinois.
He was drafted by the Falcons in the third round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana University, where he was a unanimous All-American. He played running back, wide receiver, and cornerback, and also returned kicks and punts.
As a senior, he rushed for 949 yards on 83 carries with 13 touchdowns, and also had 16 receptions for 345 yards and five touchdowns.
Coleman was also on the school"s track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper. He was one of the best 100-meter sprinters and long-jumpers in the state of Illinois as a high schooler.
At the 2011 IHSA State Championships, he placed fourth in the 100m, at 10.86, and took second in the long jump, getting a personal-best mark of 7.16 meters. At the 2011 Thornton Classic Meet, he took gold in the long jump, with a mark of 6.88 meters, and finished second in the 100 m, at 10.8 seconds.
At the 2011 IHSA 2A State T&F Championship, he ran the 100 meters in a Puerto Rico of 10.5 seconds, on his way to a second-place finish.
Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Coleman was ranked as the Number. 37 running back nationally in 2012. He chose Indiana over scholarship offers from Georgia Technical, Minnesota and Michigan State.
As a true freshman in 2012 Coleman played in 12 games with two starts.
He rushed for 225 yards on 51 attempts and one touchdown and also had 566 kick return yards and a touchdown. As a sophomore in 2013, Coleman started the first nine games of the season, before suffering an ankle sprain that caused him to miss the final three games.
He finished the year with 958 rushing yards on 131 carries with 12 touchdowns. In the first game of his junior season in 2014, Coleman rushed for 247 yards and two touchdowns against Indiana State.
Coleman"s 307 yard day in a loss at Rutgers on November 15 became second highest rushing day in school history, behind only Anthony Thompson at Wisconsin in 1989.
In the final game of the 2014 season, on November 29 versus rival Purdue, Coleman rushed for 130 yards on 29 carries, finishing the season with 2,036 yards. He became the 18th player in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I FBS history to reach 2,000 yard rushing mark in a season. His 2,036 rushing yards also broke the school"s single season record, which had been held by Vaughn Dunbar who had 1,805 yards in 1991.
On December 29, 2014, Coleman announced that he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2015 NFL Draft.