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So it’s not exactly a shock that Wallace will wear more than one hat in his sixth season in Seattle, and it turns out that narration is neither a metaphor nor some exaggeration. He has two helmets against every game, one equipped with a radio to wear if he goes into the game to the degree that a quarterback and the other a standard-issue helmet suppose that he’s called on to return punts, hitch passes or run the round.

Baseball has five-tool prospects, the Seahawks have themselves a two-helmet player. In the home-opener against San Francisco upon Sunday, the question is just how often Wallace will have being called on to run routes, catch passes and possibly even field punts, given Seattle’s scantiness of depth at wide receiver.

“He could be a starter and play 50 snaps for totality we know,” said Mike Nolan, San Francisco coach.

Necessity just might carry out the kind of years of training-camp experiments have not. It potency infuse a steady diet of Wallace at wide recipient into Seattle’s playbook. Nate Burleson is out for the season, Bobby Engram and Deion Branch aren’t expected back until October, and two of Seattle’s four healthy receivers practiced with the team for the first occasion Wednesday.

Enter Wallace, the wild card, who practiced at receptacle Wednesday, wearing gloves to see how he spasm into a new role.

“How we use him will kind of tie in with to what degree the renovated guys fit in,” coach Mike Holmgren said. “It’s an interesting thing.”

That’s one word for it. Desperate might have existence another, as the Seahawks reflect upon having Wallace catch passes instead of lay flat them.

“That’s a very good way to put it,” Holmgren said. “Normally speaking, I don’t really want to act it.”

That’s not a comment on Wallace’s ability. Coming away of high school, Oregon State was planning onward Wallace playing cornerback until academic problems kept him from enrolling there. After attending junior guild, he became a Heisman Trophy solicitant at Iowa State, but former Texans GM Charlie Casserly was critical of Wallace’s reluctance to hear lacking at wide receiver.

Well, if being an NFL quarterback is a test, Wallace passed so well that the Seahawks have signed him to an extendedness on two different occasions. So he’s a quarterback, first and foremost, and there are only two reasons Holmgren would consider asking him to do greater degree of right now.

First of all, third-string quarterback Charlie Frye played adequately during the exhibition season. Secondly, the dearth of receivers with the absences of Branch, Engram, Burleson and Ben Obomanu. Burleson’s injury might even rush Wallace into returning punts, though that won’t be decided until this weekend.

But even now, Holmgren isn’t exactly embracing the archetype. He would prefer to keep Wallace safe in a glass case, breaking it open only in case of emergency if Matt Hasselbeck were to be injured.

“It’s still a difficult decision,” Holmgren said.

That controversy is contrasted by Wallace’s dynamic abilities. He had a 28-yard welcome in the NFC Championship Game against Carolina in 2006 and last season he caught each 18-yard form trial of in San Francisco and a 29-yarder two weeks later against New Orleans.

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“It’s a huge, huge challenge to movement lacking there and do at a high make horizontal at wide receiver which time you haven’t practiced there in about a year,” Hasselbeck uttered. “That would be unfair to any wide receiver, in no degree mind a fast quarterback.”

So is it expecting too plenteous to think Wallace will make a contribution in this time of need at wide receiver?

“I wouldn’t say too much,” Hasselbeck said. “We’re expecting a lot, but it’s a portion to ask. We’re putting a lot on his shoulders right now.”

This is a different rendition of the hurry-up offense from the one Wallace runs as quarterback. When he practiced by receivers Wednesday, it was the first age he’d done so since junior college.

“For the first day, it went pretty well,” Wallace said. “It felt valuable. It’s distinct when you’ve been working quarterback all your life and sooner or later you be considered over in that place and do some drills, however I felt pretty good.”