Part of the skipper's road to recovery from his hamstring strain will include a starting role at Vale Park tonight (Tuesday) as Sheffield United's reserves take on Port Vale in the Totesport.com Reserves league.
Morgan's injury has so far forced him to miss the Yorkshire derby with Leeds, Nottingham Forest at the City Ground and Watford at Bramall Lane. He was, however, on the bench against the Hornets, just to make up numbers, though, admitted Gary Speed.
The 32-year-old has been in full training this week, but Blades boss Gary Speed wants Morgan to have some match practice ahead of Saturday's clash with Burnley, which kicks off the Blades' Championship programme again after the international break.
Speed said: "Morgs hasn't played a lot of football recently and he came straight back in against Portsmouth and was forced off early with another strain.
"It is important to look at the bigger picture and him starting in the reserves against Port Vale means we have an eye on him being available for the Burnley game.
"He has been training well but playing is different and we want to make sure he is fully over the injury before throwing him back into the thick of the action."
Incidentally, the team to play the Valiants tonight is: Wright, Montgomery, Taylor, James, Morgan, Parrino, Chapell, Morais, Slew, Lowton, Harriott.
Subs: Gregory, Long, Maguire, Wilkinson, Pomares, Ironside, Ahmadi.
United go into the game on the back of a 1:0 victory over rivals Sheffield Wednesday at Bramall Lane last month - Daniel Bogdanovic getting the only goal of the game from the spot.