After missing Wednesday and Thursday's practices, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck took some snaps on Friday.
Hasselbeck was officially listed as "questionable" on the team's final injury report of the week.
Despite the improvement in Hasselbeck's status, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll remains committed to starting Charlie Whitehurst in Sunday night's "For All the Marbles" game against the St. Louis Rams.
"Charlie’s going," Carroll said according to Eric Williams of the Tacoma News Tribune. "We’ve been committed to that because that’s what we can count on and that’s what we know. Charlie had a real solid week. He did everything we needed him to do, so he’s ready for the game."
It's hard to fault Carroll for remaining verbally committed to Whitehurst. Hasselbeck hasn't practiced this week due to a quirky injury that resurfaced when Hasselbeck ran untouched into the end zone during last week's loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But if Hasselbeck is healthy enough to play, he deserves to start, and not just because he's been with the team since the 2001 season and is a free agent after the season, though that's certainly part of the equation.
Hasselbeck is better-equipped than Whitehurst to handle a playoff situation. He's been in this situation before, he's taken the lion's share of the first-team reps throughout the season, and his experience can get the Seahawks offense out of bad situations against Steve Spagnuolo's defense.
And yes, the last time Hasselbeck plays in front of the home crowd at Qwest Field should not be during an embarrassing loss to the Atlanta Falcons, with a vocal minority of fans chanted "Charlie! Charlie!" during the fourth quarter.
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