INDIANAPOLIS — The Buffalo Bills have suggested they're inclined to stick with their

incumbent quarterbacks this year, but that's not stopping them from thoroughly scouting their

quarterback options in the draft.

Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen said Saturday he had meetings with the Bills and the

Washington Redskins on Friday night at the NFL Scouting Combine.

Bills coach Chan Gailey is good friends with John Tenuta, Notre Dame's defensive

coordinator last year. Tenuta was Gailey's defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech for six years

and is a big Clausen booster.

"I've met coach [Gailey] before," Clausen said. "He's a great guy. We were in there just

talking, talking ball, having a lot of fun. I've met him before and it was good to see him

again."

It's standard procedure for teams in the top half of the draft to meet with many of the top

prospects. Teams are allowed to have as many as 60 15-minute, one-on-one interviews with

prospects during the combine.

Clausen chose Notre Dame over Southern California when he enrolled in college. He said he

knows Seahawks coach Pete Carroll well, too. The Seahawks have a quarterback need. So does

Washington and St. Louis, among the first eight teams picking in the draft.

Clausen played most of this past season, his junior year, with a right toe injury. He is

not working out at the combine. He will work for NFL scouts April 9 at Notre Dame.

Said Clausen: "I hurt it the third game of the season in the second quarter against

Michigan State. I tore two ligaments in that game and played the rest of the season. I had to

take painkillers for every single game. At the end of the season I got another MRI, and from

playing on the two torn tendons, my bones in my toe retracted about one centimeter. So the

doctor had to reattach the tendons and put two pins in there to hold the tendons and he also

had to move the bones back up for me."

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Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford said his shoulder is 85 percent healthy. Bradford

suffered a Grade 3 separation of the shoulder last season and played only three games for the

Sooners. He said he is throwing every other day and threw 100 passes in his last workout. He

is scheduled to throw for scouts on March 25.

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Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said the Ravens would be interested in soon-to-be free-agent

receiver Terrell Owens, although it was hard to determine if his statement was a genuine

expression of interest or if he simply was being polite.

"I've always said I've got a lot of respect for T.O.," Harbaugh said. "He had a good year.

We watched him on tape and he was very effective last year."

Why were you watching him, are you interested in him?, he was asked.

"Well, we watch everybody," Harbaugh said. "You cornered me. You got me. We're interested

in T.O. We're interested in all the guys that can make our team better."

Owens will be looking for a new team when the NFL free-agency period begins March 5.

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An NFL spokesman said Saturday the league could change its overtime format for playoff

games at a meeting next month.

Under the new format, both teams would get the ball at least once unless the first team to

get the ball scores a touchdown, Greg Aiello said. If the first team to get the ball makes a

field goal and the other team ties the game, action would continue until a team scores again.

Under the current rules, the first team to score wins.

"There have been various concepts that have been discussed in recent years, but this one

has never been proposed," Aiello said.

The competition committee will discuss the new concept with teams and players at league

meetings March 21-24 in Orlando, Fla., when it could come to a vote. At least two thirds of

the teams would need to agree to the changes for new rules to be adopted.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.