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Clay Matthews playing with huge cast on his hand, looks dangerous

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 6:02 p.m. ET

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By Andy Nesbitt, FOXSports.com Clay Matthews is back in the Packers' lineup Sunday for the first time since breaking his right thumb last month. How is he going to protect that thumb during the game? By wearing a gigantic black cast:

Clay Matthews is playing with a wreckingball on his hand pic.twitter.com/KmEqvSFhdC — Vincent Pace (@vincent_pace) November 10, 2013

So how is that think legal? Our own NFL rules expert, Mike Pereira, explains:

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