Derrick Coleman: The Third Hearing-impaired Player Ever to Reach the NFL

Derrick Coleman is living his dream as a Super Bowl-winning fullback for the Seattle Seahawks, but few would have expected the 24-year-old to end up there. Coleman, deaf since childhood, is only the third hearing-impaired player ever to reach the National Football League and the league’s first legally deaf offensive player.   “It wasn’t so much the NFL, it was more proving everybody wrong,” …