Colmer graduated from Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, located in his hometown of Port Jefferson, New York.

Colmer went to college at North Carolina State and was the first person from his high school to earn a Division I scholarship in 27 years.

[2] The Tampa Bay Buccaneers received this pick in a trade with the San Diego Chargers.

During the 2006 offseason, he suffered another bout of Parsonage–Turner syndrome and spent the entire year on injured reserve.

and coaching at Centereach High School on Long Island in New York, when he died at the age of thirty on December 28, 2010.