Douglass Clayton Colman (born June 4, 1973) is an

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coach, former player and son of former NFL player Wayne Charles Colman. He was a

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in the

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(NFL) for five seasons with the

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Tennessee Titans The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC South, South division. They play the ...

and

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after playing

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at the

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Playing career

Colman started his career at

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where he is a member of the hall of fame. As a senior, he was named "South Jersey Defensive Player of the Year" at linebacker and also gained more than 1,000 yards as fullback. Later he played

at and graduated from the

. The

Cornhuskers The Nebraska Cornhuskers (often abbreviated to Huskers) are the College athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference and ...

won back-to-back, undefeated national championships in the 1994 and 1995 seasons and were Big Eight Conference Champions 1991-1995. He was then drafted by the

in the sixth round (171st pick overall) of the

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. Colman spent five seasons in the NFL from 1996 to 2000, playing a total of 64 games for the Giants,

and

. He helped the Titans to

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in which Colman appeared as a substitute, however they lost to the

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-led

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. That same year Colman had participated in the "

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" vs. the

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that allowed the Titans to continue in the playoffs.

Coaching career

Following his stay in the NFL, Colman coached freshman football at his alma mater

. In 2002, he became an assistant coach and teacher for

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before becoming head coach at

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in 2003. During his tenure at Absegami, Colman compiled an overall record of 40–15, with two appearances in the South Jersey Group IV championship game, winning it in 2006. Colman's Braves also won three straight Cape-Atlantic American Conference championships. He guided Absegami High School to its only football championships. Colman joined the

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for the 2007 season as a member of the

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coaching program, serving as an assistant linebackers and special teams coach during the team's final season. He spent the next two years as the defensive quality coach working with linebackers and special teams at his alma mater, Nebraska. In 2010, Colman joined

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's staff at

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where he coached the linebackers and assisted with special teams. After two seasons in that capacity, he was hired as the linebackers coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Coastal Carolina. Colman was marked to be Penn State's new linebacker coach before following Bill O'brien to the Houston Texans. He was recently the special teams and linebacker assistant for the Houston Texans. He was fired on January 2, 2018. He was hired by the Dallas Cowboys to be the special teams assistant for the 2018 season. In 2019, Colman was hired by the Cleveland Browns as the Special Teams assistant coach.

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