Star recruit Adam Treloar may get his first taste of football in red, white and blue on Monday, according to senior coach Luke Beveridge.

The 27-year-old is back training after a calf injury interrupted his pre-season, with the Bulldogs’ boss saying he may play in a VFL practice game on Monday in his bid to be fit for a round one clash with Collingwood.

“At the moment he may play some minutes on Monday, but it won’t be in the senior team that plays against Melbourne,” Beveridge told SEN Breakfast on Wednesday morning.

“It will be against Casey here at Whitten Oval in the early game – if he plays at all. We still need to clear that up.”

Treloar has been back running and involved in skills training for more than a week and will have a couple more training sessions before Monday.

The Bulldogs had taken a cautious approach with his calf tightness, given his previous injury history.

Beveridge said there was still plenty of time until round one – and the Bulldogs wouldn’t rush into making a call on the gun midfielder’s availability.

“Because he’s seasoned and he has a reasonable engine, Adam, he probably sets himself up as one of those case-by-case considerations,” he said.

“He’d had a really strong training patch and then got a cork in his calf and kept running on it, and it turned it something a little bit worse.

“We’ll give him a little bit of time.

“(After Monday’s games) we’ve got 12 days until round one, so we’ll see how that shapes up.”