"He looked OK. More importantly, he feels OK," a "relieved" Holmgren said of Wallace. "It's going to be his ballgame — unless something happens in the next two days."

With these Seahawks, the caveat is necessary.

Matt Hasselbeck will not even make Saturday's trip to Florida. The three-time Pro Bowl passer is continuing core strengthening exercises in his back for a bulging disk, which is pressing on a nerve and weakening his hyperextended right knee. Hasselbeck is out indefinitely.

Friday brought news that Billy McMullen sustained a compound fracture of the pinkie on his right hand in practice the previous day and will be out a while. McMullen is the seventh Seahawk at that position to get hurt this season.

Deion Branch is questionable with a bruised heel, but his side work with a trainer on Friday was the first time he's been on the field in weeks. He will make the trip. Holmgren is holding out hope Branch will play his second game since reconstructive knee surgery in February.

Jordan Kent, signed off the practice squad last week, will be active to give Seattle four healthy — if not proven — wide receivers against the Buccaneers.

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Wallace to start Sunday for Seahawks
RENTON, Wash. (AP) - Mike Holmgren's hopes of avoiding the second 1-5 start of his 17-year coaching career rest upon a backup quarterback who has a sore leg and will make his first start in two years. Seattle's coach confirmed Friday that Seneca Wallace will start Sunday night at Tampa Bay (4-2). This week's practices proved Wallace's 5-week-old calf injury has healed enough for him to replace Charlie Frye, the third-stringer who was skittish and ineffective in last week's loss to Green Bay. Action packed