<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Holmgren: Alexander, Hasselbeck might return SundayAssociated PressKIRKLAND, Wash. -- Shaun Alexander's doctors have reversed field. So now the league MVP can begin to prove that he can be the same again.Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Hasselbeck will be right behind him.Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said Monday that both of his injured stars may play on Sunday at San Francisco, pending tests in practice this week. Doctors have cleared Alexander to fully practice Wednesday for the first time in eight weeks -- even though the broken bone in his left foot, which has sidelined him for six games, may not be fully healed. That had been the previous criterion for Alexander's return.If Alexander comes through practices this week as pain free as he's been for the last three, idle weeks, the 2005 league rushing leader will play for the Seahawks (6-3) against the 49ers (4-5).MRI results were due late Monday night. But Holmgren said that because Alexander has no pain, doctors are going to let him test the foot on the field Wednesday no matter what the pictures show."The diagnostics of the injury doesn't compute with what the player is saying," Holmgren said.The coach also said Hasselbeck will likely practice Friday to see if he can also return from a sprained knee ligament. Hasselbeck has missed the last three games since Minnesota's E.J. Henderson rolled into the quarterback's right leg following an incomplete pass.Monday, a players' off day, Hasselbeck was on the practice field running change-of-direction drills in cleats for the first time since the injury. Holmgren said Hasselbeck had "some limitations -- but it's only Monday.""He has a chance to play this week," Holmgren said. "I can't say for sure ... if he can't move [better by Friday], then I'm not going to stick him back there."</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2660786
If they're not sure, they might as well sit them for another week... team's doing great without them lol
I hope Alexander starts. I need him so I can make the playoffs in one of my leagues.8-man league and I'm having to juggle Kevin Jones, Warrick Dunn, Jamal Lewis, & Tatum Bell. Not good.
They just said on ESPNHasselbeck - Will probably sit one more week, undecided weather he is going to be 1, 2, or 3 on the Depth Chart.Alexander - Will likely play.
