Per analyst, Syracuse football pushing hard for 4-star RB, top-100 national prospect

Syracuse football coaches are pushing hard for 2025 four-star running back Jabree Coleman, a top-100 national prospect from Philadelphia.

That's according to a recent article from Rivals.com national recruiting director Adam Gorney. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Coleman has received more than 20 offers throughout his recruiting process to date.

The new Orange coaching staff, led by head coach Fran Brown, offered a scholarship to Coleman on December 24 of last year. Brown, most recently the defensive backs coach at Southeastern Conference powerhouse Georgia, and several of his assistants hail from New Jersey.

Since taking over the 'Cuse in early December of 2023, Brown and his staff have recruited the Garden State hard, along with nearby Philadelphia and the rest of the Northeast corridor.

Syracuse football is in pursuit of Jabree Coleman, a four-star running back in the junior class.

Last July, Coleman had verbally committed to Georgia, but on December 10 of last year, he said that he was de-committing from the Bulldogs and reopening his recruitment.

At the time that Coleman de-committed from Georgia, Rivals.com national analyst Adam Friedman noted that Brown was a "major part" of Coleman’s recruitment as it related to the Bulldogs.

His full offer sheet includes college squads such as Indiana, Georgia, Boston College, Maryland, UConn, Cincinnati, Michigan, Nebraska, Ole Miss, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Tennessee, Texas A&M, West Virginia, Miami, Michigan State, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin, among others.

Coleman is a standout at the Imhotep Institute Charter High School in Philadelphia. As a junior during the 2023 season, according to MaxPreps, he rushed for 1,585 yards and 28 touchdowns, while also hauling in 208 receiving yards and two more scores.

In the last term, Imhotep won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (“PIAA”) Class 5A state championship. The Panthers went 15-0 and finished at No. 2 within the final MaxPreps top 25 in Pennsylvania.

Gorney writes in his recent story that Coleman "is getting more serious about Penn State while the new coaching staff at Syracuse is also pushing for him to take a serious look at the Orange." Other suitors mentioned by the Rivals.com expert in Coleman's recruiting process include Southern California, Michigan State, North Carolina, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.

Within the 2025 cycle, several recruiting services rank Coleman as a top-200 overall player, a top-15 running back and a top-five prospect coming out of Pennsylvania.

Currently, Rivals.com is the most bullish on him, placing Coleman at No. 97 nationwide, No. 8 at running back and No. 3 in Pennsylvania within the junior class.

In late January, Syracuse football landed its first 2025 pledge, and it was from a high school player in Pennslyvania. Four-star edge and top-300 national prospect Sharlandiin Strange out of Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pa., verbally committed to the 'Cuse over other finalists Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Southern California.