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Can Kearse live up to big talk?

Jayron Kearse talks, and with boundless confidence he doesn’t mind sharing his opinion.

“I’m very confident in myself,” said Kearse, Clemson’s junior safety from Fort Myers, Fla. “I feel like whatever I’m doing I’m the best at it until somebody shows me otherwise.”

An All-American trash talker, Kearse will engage anybody including his teammates during practice.

“If I’m going against them I’m talking trash,” he said Monday. “But they know the type of guy I am, they know that’s just the thing I do when I’m playing football.

“I’m so pumped up at practice or during a game that’s just something I do.