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NFL's first deaf offensive player ready to start over with Falcons

"Hey, my name is Derrick Coleman. I’m hard of hearing, but I wear hearing aids. I can't always hear you. But any time you might audible and I don’t hear you, all I’m going to do is come up and grab you on your arm and be like, 'Hey, what did you say? Can you repeat it?' You don’t even have to yell it. I’m just going to read your lips, and I’m good to go."

This was the message Derrick Coleman relayed to Atlanta Falcons quarterbacks Matt Ryan and Matt Schaub shortly after he signed a one-year, $690,000 contract with the team back in March.