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Jadeveon Clowney is healthy, which makes this an important season (Shutdown Corner)

Jadeveon Clowney was more than a one-hit wonder.

NFL teams aren't dopey enough to draft a player No. 1 based on one big hit against a Michigan running back. Maybe that's how you came to know Clowney, but long before that play NFL scouts saw the size, the explosiveness and playmaking ability from the South Carolina defensive end. It surprised very few people when Clowney was the top pick of the 2014 draft, to the Houston Texans. He was a fantastic prospect.

How time flies.

Clowney wouldn't even be the first pass rusher taken if we re-selected the 2014 NFL draft (hello, Khalil Mack) and we have little idea if Clowney can be an above-average pro player.