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Poet and Pass Rusher

Editor's note: This story appears in the Sept. 21 edition of the 2019 Syracuse football gameday program. Programs are available for $5 and sold throughout the Dome.

Those hands. Meet senior Kendall Coleman, and they are hard to ignore – thick, muscular wrists, fleshy palms and slender fingers that exude confidence. Authority.

They are hands that have mercilessly attacked hundreds of football jerseys, including that of West Virginia quarterback Jack Allison, whom Coleman sacked three times in the 2018 Camping World Bowl, tying the Syracuse bowl record.

They are hands that clenched in agony in 2017, when Coleman tore his left labrum against Louisville, causing him to consider giving up playing.