Since then, he's just about perfected the move.

Chase Coffman is a magician. How else do you explain what he can do on the football field that amazes the audience?

"You'll always hear the ahhh. Or oooo. Depending on whether it works or not," said senior tight end Chase Coffman.

"Everytime he does it, I'm like oh God. He's good. He's going to be in the NFL next year," said freshman tight end Andrew Jones.

He's six-foot-six and 245 pounds. But Coffman can make himself disappear. Just ask defenses trying to tackle him. Here one minute, gone the next.

He learned the trick from his dad, Paul. He performed it professionally for the Packers and Chiefs. 

"I was just talking to my dad or something, watching his film. He was trying to jump people back in the day. Just people diving at my legs. It's instinct," Coffman said.

Ok, so it's really just a jump. Coffman learned it when he competed in the hurdles in 8th grade.

"I was pretty good." Coffman said. "I didn't have too many meets, but that was the last year I ran track."

The move deserves a catchy nickname. Call it the Coffman catapult. Or the Tiger leap.

"The hurdle. It's the hurdle. that's what I call it," said Coffman.

Coffman's with a memorable bound in Boulder. Where the air is thin. And hang time is high.

"It was just a longer run and it happened to be scoring a touchdown," said Coffman. "That was probably the first one where I actually kept my feet and kept going after I hurdled somebody."

"Whenver he gets that ball guys don't want to go up high on him. He's so big he just punishes them. So he just jumps right over them like nothing even happened," said junior linebacker Sean Weatherspoon.

But not every vault is victorious. This one at Oklahoma turned vicous.

"I jumped way too early and they didn't go down," Coffman said. "I got stuck up there in the air and it wasn't very good."

Coffman keeps his catapulting on the field. On campus he's just a regular guy.

"I just jump up on the curb when I'm trying to get to class quickly," Coffman said.

Coffman says the key to the move is instinct. When he thinks about it too much, that's when it doesn't work out.