The News Gets No Better for Winless Raiders : Junkin Is Lost for Season; Wilson and Allen Questionable for Charger Game

Blue Monday made its now weekly appearance at Raider headquarters, with the only business remaining after the team’s 0-3 start being a count of the wounded.

Marcus Allen and Marc Wilson will apparently be listed as questionable for next Sunday’s game against the San Diego Chargers.

Allen’s ankle injury turned out to be only a sprain, if a bad one. Allen was hopping around the training site on his left foot Monday, keeping his right foot, to which a large ice pack had been taped, in the air.

“He’s hobbling,” Coach Tom Flores said. “It’s pretty sore. At this point, I really can’t say what his availability will be. He tried to go back in for one play (in Sunday’s loss to the New York Giants) and couldn’t go.

“He’s a tough guy and a fast healer, but we’ll have to wait and see.”

Said Raider orthopedist Robert Rosenfeld: “It’s just an ankle sprain. I think he’ll be all right. I know he’ll be all right.”

Wilson sat out the game with a separation of his right shoulder, suffered the previous week in Washington. The severity of the injury seemed to surprise the Raiders, who listed him as probable as late as Wednesday of last week.

Flores said he didn’t know if Wilson would return, either.

“If he thought he was 100%, we probably would go back to Marc,” Flores said. “ . . . But even in pregame warm-ups Sunday, Marc didn’t do any throwing. He just lobbed the ball, played soft toss.”

Trey Junkin, the backup tight end who caught two passes on the opening drive from a formation using two tight ends, has been lost for the season. He was to have surgery for a torn ligament in his left knee.

The Raiders thus have a roster spot open. They are trying to decide if Napoleon McCallum, who has a hamstring strain and was also held out Sunday, will be ready. If not, the next in line is Vance Mueller, a promising rookie from Occidental College whom the Raiders would prefer to bring along a lot more slowly.

Junkin’s spot on the roster might be filled by Kenny King, Allen’s long-time backup who was cut in camp, or tight end Earl Cooper, a 49er castoff, who was also cut in camp.

Raider Notes Tom Flores termed his team’s offense in Sunday’s 14-9 loss to the New York Giants “just inadequate.” . . . Dr. Robert Rosenfeld conferred with cornerback Brad Cochran, the No. 3 draft choice who is on injured reserve with back trouble. Cochran and No. 1 pick Bob Buczkowski may both require surgery. Both have just returned from San Francisco, where they were checked by a neutral doctor retained by the NFL, which makes random checks in an attempt to make sure players put on injured reserve are really injured. . . . Buczkowski has already had minor surgery. Said Rosenfeld, who performed it: “I’m not encouraged.”