He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning first-team All-American honors in 1997.

He was a Prep Football Report All-America and All-Midlands selection and rated the fifth-best tight end prospect in the nation by Blue Chip Illustrated.

The play was run successfully throughout the 1997 season, including 4 times against Colorado and for a go-ahead score in the 1998 Rose Bowl.

On January 13, the Cardinals re-signed Tuman during the playoffs after tight end Stephen Spach was placed on injured reserve with a torn ACL.

[4] In 2017, Tuman served as an assistant football coach at North Allegheny Senior High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania.