USA Today Sports is reporting NFL teams don't seem too concerned or disappointed by Jadveon Clowney's slow start to his junior season at South Carolina.
According to the newspaper, Clowney remains the consensus top pick for the 2014 NFL Draft, even as his mini-feud with coach Steven Spurrier seems to be intensyfying.
"Nah, no one will care," an executive in personnel for an NFL team told USA Today. "If he's healthy, works out well and most importantly interviews well, it won't hurt him."
A second NFL executive echoed: "No one cares. He's injured."
Spurrier and his coaching staff didn't seem too convinced of that over the weekend after Clowney missed the Gamecock's SEC win over Kentucky. At the last minute, Clowney told coaches his ribs were too sore for him to play.
When reporters asked Spurrier's about Clowney's commitment to the team, USA Today reports the the coach tepidly responded "you'll have to ask him that." In three games this season, Clowney has just 12 tackles and two sacks.
In being named SEC Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, Clowney registered a school-record 13 sacks and added 23.5 tackles for losses.
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