While Coleman has done a great job of making a name for himself, there one very important aspect that nobody has talked about. He never played defense in high school until his senior year. Before that, he was a seldomly used quarterback. AFter Coach Matt Richardson took over Warren G. Harding High School's football after Chaz's junior season (early January of 2024), he immediately starting building up & promoting Chaz as an edge. While he remained WGH's quarterback through his senior year, he also played outside linebacker & punter.
As an '02 alum of WGH, I graduated with Maurice Clarett (Ohio State) & David Herron Jr. (Michigan State; NFL) while also going to high school with Prescott Burgess (Michigan; NFL), Mario Manningham (Michigan; Super Bowl XLVI "hero"), and numerous other then-eventual Division I college football players. All of the aforementioned guys were receiving hype before the end of their sophomore years as most colleges have a great idea of who they want relatively early in one's HS career. With Chaz, all of his hype came either right before or during his senior year.
Even as a big supporter of Coleman, I understand that some question his hype as his true freshman numbers at Penn State don't exactly jump of f the page. Again, not only was this only his second season playing on the defensive side of the ball, it was actually his first playing defensive end. As many signs as he showed this past fall, I promise you that he'll only continue to get exponentially better.
In case you haven't seen him, these are the football & basketball highlight films that I made of Coleman's senior year at WGH. IN fact, I've pushed the idea of him also playing college basketball. Of course, you must excuse the Penn State thumbnail, lol.