AROUND THE NFL Training camp notes

Seahawks
SEATTLE -- Jeff Kelly could have gone home to Alabama to work as a securities broker. Seneca Wallace could have switched to receiver, as many NFL teams have asked the 5-foot-11 playmaker to do.
Instead, they'll each take snaps and throw passes when the Seattle Seahawks play their exhibition opener tonight at home against the San Diego Chargers.
Kelly, a second-year pro, and Wallace, a rookie, are competing for the No. 3 quarterback job for the Seahawks.
"There's no rivalry," Kelly said. "I've been helping him out, and all the quarterbacks are helping each other with the offense. I know that Seneca and I both want to win this game."
Starter Matt Hasselbeck will play only a few series against the Chargers, and Trent Dilfer is out with a strained abdominal muscle. Coaches are eager to see Kelly and Wallace under game conditions.
"We'll see if they can play," offensive coordinator Gil Haskell said. "We've been practicing so much, giving them every situation we can. Now, they actually get to do it in a game. How do they react to it?"
49ers-Chiefs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Now it's the home crowd's turn to see if Priest Holmes is ready to pick up where he left off.
The NFL's offensive player of the year in 2002 -- despite missing the last two games with a hip injury -- Holmes figures to get six to eight carries when the Kansas City Chiefs host the San Francisco 49ers in their first home exhibition game.
Against Green Bay on Monday night in the Hall of Fame game, Holmes carried five times for 14 yards. As he's done in training camp, he showed no ill effects from hip surgery last March.
Holmes is also determined to show the Chiefs he's healthy so he can work on a contract extension. Chiefs president Carl Peterson said he's willing to negotiate, but only after Holmes proves he's at full speed.
"I've had too many injuries over my career to let this one injury in particular stop me from doing the things I want to do," said Holmes.
Jaguars-Vikings
MINNEAPOLIS -- Jacksonville's first exhibition game will be enough to treasure for rookie coach Jack Del Rio. Though his Jaguars are visiting a place he used to call home, Del Rio doesn't anticipate feeling any further sentiment.
"There's enough emotion involved with just taking a team somewhere for the first time," said Del Rio, a middle linebacker for the Vikings from 1992-95 who was hired as Jacksonville's coach in January after Tom Coughlin was fired.
The Jaguars and Vikings play in their preseason opener tonight.
"Going back to Minnesota will be special, but that's part of my past," Del Rio said. "I'm more focused on my future and the opportunity I have now."
Packers-Falcons
ATLANTA -- Seven months ago, Michael Vick led the Atlanta Falcons to an improbable playoff victory at Lambeau Field. He'll get another crack at the Green Bay Packers tonight, but this one won't last long.
Vick will play the first quarter and a bit of the second before taking a seat in the Falcons' preseason opener.
"I don't have to go out and prove anything," he said. "We'll just go out, and I'll continue to polish up my skills. I might get some different looks, but it's not a whole game, so you really can't get into it, into the flow of the game like I want to. But it's enough to get going."
For Brett Favre, it will take even less to get going. The Green Bay quarterback is expected to play only a couple of series, just as he did Monday in the Packers' preseason debut.
"From my standpoint ... it really wasn't much of anything, except getting drilled one time," said Favre, who survived a shot by former teammate Vonnie Holliday only two plays into the game.
Cowboys
SAN ANTONIO -- Larry Allen sat out a few practice sessions this week. Earlier in camp, he got so frustrated after being dominated by La'Roi Glover in a drill that he slammed his helmet down and sulked alone in the end zone.
Such incidents have raised questions about the health of the Dallas Cowboys' seven-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman, who played just five games last year when he had shoulder and ankle surgeries.
Coach Bill Parcells didn't sound too concerned about the left guard.
"I just think we have to get some of the rust off. He really hasn't played much the last two years," Parcells said. "That's really all it is. You don't get in tune with this game by watching, by riding a bike."
Parcells plans for the starting offensive line to play about one-third of the offensive snaps in today's preseason opener at Arizona. And that includes the 6-foot-3, 335-pound Allen.