It's too early to tell whether he will.
"Would I love to play on Sunday? Sure I would," Warner said after limited participation in Wednesday's practice. "I'm going to go forward with the idea that I can. But we've just got to weigh all the options and make sure that it's something that I can do."
Warner said doctors told him he's not risking a worse injury by playing. The biggest issue, Warner said, may be finding the right brace. Warner tried several at practice, but had trouble finding one that provided enough support for the badly swollen joint on his non-throwing arm.
He said it was most painful when he extended his arm to hand off, but that throwing isn't a problem.
"The huge key is really trying to find the right brace to really stabilize it," he said. "There are a couple of braces that the arm was just really loose. And when it's loose and it's kind of wobbling with the ligaments, you can't deal with that."
Warner's presence would help stabilize the Cardinals' offense, which is reeling from the loss of two starting quarterbacks in an eight-day span.
Warner tore a ligament trying to recover his own fumble in a 25-10 home loss to Carolina on Sunday. He was starting in place of Matt Leinart, who was lost for the season with a broken collarbone one week earlier.
The Cardinals played most of the Carolina game with Tim Rattay, an eight-year NFL veteran who had been helping his father, Jim, coach a Phoenix-area high school team. Rattay played for the San Francisco 49ers for six years before being traded to Tampa Bay, where he played in four games a year ago.
The club signed Tim Hasselbeck this week as a backup, and he and Rattay took turns running the offense on Wednesday.
The 6-foot-1, 214-pound Hasselbeck had been working in radio and television since his release by the New York Giants on Sept. 1. He appeared in two games for the Giants in 2005, but didn't attempt a pass.
Coach Ken Whisenhunt wouldn't rule out Warner or select a starter. He denied he was being vague in an effort to keep the Redskins off-balance.
"Maybe we'll go with a three-quarterback platoon this week and see if we can get that one to work," Whisenhunt said with a chuckle. "It's not so much gamesmanship. We've got to find the guy that we feel comfortable with doing what we can do.
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