Tevin Coleman

BIOGRAPHY

Tevin Coleman was born on April 16th, 1993, in Oak Forest, Illinois. He is a running back in the NFL.

He studied at the University of Indiana and is a running back that has played in multiple teams throughout his NFL career such as the Atlanta Falcons and currently the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. In his early years, Coleman attended Oak Forest High School where he played as a running back, wide receiver, and cornerback, and also returned kicks and punts. He was named the 2011 Southtown Star Player of the Year and 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. He was considered a three-star recruit by the Rivals.com recruiting network, Coleman was ranked as the No. 37 running back nationally in 2012. 

After he finished high school, Coleman committed to the University of Indiana where as a freshman in 2012, in 2012, Coleman played in 12 games with two starts, rushing 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, and 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 and in the following game, at Bowling Green, he had 190 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. On November 15, Coleman's 307-yard game became second-highest rushing day in school history, behind only Anthony Thompson at Wisconsin in 1989. n November 25, Coleman and fellow Big Ten Conference running backs Melvin Gordon and Ameer Abdullah were named the three finalists for the Doak Walter Award. He finished the season with 2,036 yards, becoming the 18th player in NCAA 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. Coleman finished seventh in the 2014 Heisman Trophy voting having received two first-place votes. 

After his junior year, Coleman entered the 2015 NFL Draft where he was selected in the third round by the Atlanta Falcons and on May 12, 2015, Coleman signed his rookie contract which was a four-year contract with the Falcons. On September 8, 2015, Coleman was named the Falcons feature running back to start the season. On September 14, 2015, Coleman made his NFL debut, running for 80 yards on a season-high 20 carries against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football and on September 20, 2015, Coleman scored his first touchdown of his career against the New York Giants. Coleman finished his rookie season rushing for 392 yards for one touchdown, was ranked 11th among rookies in rushing yards and was among 17 rookies to record a rushing touchdown in the 2015 season. On September 18, Coleman scored his first touchdown of the 2016 season, a 13-yarder, against the Oakland Raiders. On September 26, Coleman scored a career-high three touchdowns against the New Orleans Saints, his first multi-touchdown game. n October 9, Coleman caught four passes for a career-high 132 yards and a touchdown against the Denver Broncos, which was his first touchdown reception of his career. On February 5, 2017, Coleman scored a six-yard receiving touchdown in the third quarter of Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots and in addition, Coleman had seven rushes for 29 yards in the Super Bowl. Coleman's 6.3 yards per touch in 2016 was second among NFL running backs with more than 100 touches in carries plus receptions. 

In Week 12 of the 2017 season, in 34–20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he had 19 carries for 97 yards and two touchdowns for his second career game with multiple touchdown scores. Coleman finished the 2017 season with 628 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns, 27 receptions, 299 receiving yards, and three receiving touchdowns while in the 2018 season, he finished with a career-high 800 rushing yards and five receiving touchdowns, he also eclipsed 1,000 yards from scrimmage for the first time in his career. On March 14, 2019, Coleman signed a two-year contract with theSan Francisco 49ers. 

On March 25, 2021, Coleman signed a one-year, $2 million contract with New York Jets.