Tyree Foreman enters his fourth season with the Towson football team and has worked with the running backs since the 2019 season.
In 2021, Jerry Howard Jr. earned a All-CAA Third Team selection at running back, finishing third in the CAA with 84.7 rushing yards per game and earning four 100+ yard rushing performances. In addition, rookie running back Devin Matthews led the team in scoring with 48 points off eight touchdowns.
2019 saw the second straight year where Towson placed a running on the all-conference team. Yeedee Thaenrat, stepping into a starting role after injuries to a pair of backs, tied for sixth in Towson history with 14 rushing touchdowns in a season, averaging 5.9 yards per carry for 746 yards to earn All-CAA Second Team. Two running backs, Thaenrat and Adrian Feliz-Platt, averaged over 4.7 yards per carry, while five different Towson running backs had rushing touchdowns.
He spent 2018 working with the tight ends unit. Chris Clark finished with four touchdowns on that unit that season.
Previous to Towson, Foreman spent two years at Tennessee Tech, working with each the running backs and the tight ends. He was the offensive coordinator and associate head coach in 2017 and was acting head coach at the end of the year. Wide receiver Dontez Byrd was selected as a 2017 First Team All-OVC wide receiver with 1,003 yards receiving, the season record for the program.
He was the running backs coach at Temple for eight years, helping the Owls to some of their best years in program history, including two years as the special teams coordinator. Among athletes he worked with included Bernard Pierce, a former running back with the Baltimore Ravens who was a 2009 and 2010 All-American, and Matt Brown, who played professionally as a kick returner and was the 2012 Big East Special Teams Player of the Year.
His first coaching job after his professional days came at Army West Point, where his primary runner, Carlton Jones, averaged 115.4 rushing yards a game to rank 13th in the nation. He was at West Point from 2004-06.
After his collegiate playing career, he signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Chargers and later went to the Chicago Bears practice squad. He was a starter for the Barcelona Dragons in NFL Europe in 2003.
As a player at Virginia, he lettered for three years from 1999-2001 as a fullback and a tailback. He averaged five yards per carry and 11.4 yards per catch, totaling 16 touchdowns.
Foreman graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001 with a degree in religious studies.
