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Position: | Special teams coordinator & defensive backs coach | ||||||||||
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Born: | Town Creek, Alabama, U.S. | October 22, 1978||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Hazlewood (Town Creek, Alabama) | ||||||||||
College: | Morehouse Grambling | ||||||||||
Undrafted: | 2002 | ||||||||||
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Kalvin Pearson (born October 22, 1978) is an American football coach and former safety. He is the special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach for Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, a position he has held since 2023. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Grambling.
Pearson attended Hazlewood High School in Town Creek, Alabama and was a letterman in football.
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