Clausen’s toe isn’t fully recovered

Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen is expected to be a pretty high pick in the upcoming NFL draft, even if someone people think he’s going to stink. And it doesn’t help that all last season he was battling a bum toe. MRI’s showed that he did the tendon damage against Michigan State and as of now, he isn’t able to workout for NFL teams since his surgery.

So, how is the toe?

“It’s coming along,” Clausen said Tuesday at Notre Dame’s pro day. “(Monday) was the first day I’ve been able to run since surgery. Just jogged around the track a little bit. Two laps and I was pretty winded. But it felt good. It’s not as strong as I want it, coming off of surgery, but it’s getting there.

“It’s hard not being able to go out there and run a 40 (yard dash), do a shuttle, throw the ball, do all those things. But I’ll be able to throw out there on the ninth and I think that’s what coaches want to see.”

Clausen also talked about exactly what happened to his toe and what the doctors had to do.

“I played on it the whole season, so my two sesamoid bones moved a centimeter down,” Clausen said. “The doctor had to reattach the tendons and then move the sesamoid bones up. It was a pretty intense surgery.”

As long as he’s ok at some point before the draft where can workout for teams, he should be fine and it shouldn’t hurt his draft stock. Unless he stinks up the joint during those workouts, which is a completely different story.