PRO FOOTBALL REPORT / WEEKDAY UPDATE : CHARGERS : Tolliver Practices Despite His Injuries

Quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver, who was handicapped by groin and knee injuries, said he went through the team’s two major practices this week without difficulty.

“I practiced the whole week and never missed a snap,” Tolliver said. “The groin is the worst thing. The knee is just a little bruised and no big deal.

“The trainer (Keoki Kamau) tried to tell me I’d be out two or three days, but he’s Hawaiian. He doesn’t know Texan. Don’t get me wrong, it hurt like hell, but us Texans are tougher than salt block . . . you can’t break it.”

Tolliver, however, remained on the team’s injury report Thursday as questionable for Sunday’s game with Seattle with a knee injury.

“Why would I be on the injury report?” he said. “I practiced.”

Although the Chargers have not listed linebacker Cedric Figaro among the five players listed on their injury report, Coach Dan Henning said the health of Figaro is his biggest concern.

“He’s the unhealthiest of the lot,” Henning said. “Figaro has gone through a backside pull, a hamstring pull and he’s doing all right, but when he gets into a full clip . . . he just might have to be on the punt team and keep him off the kickoff.”

Henning also expressed concern with the health of defensive end Gerald Robinson (leg), although Robinson is not on the injury list.

Defensive tackle Lee Williams is on the list and he’s questionable with a chest injury.

“Who put that on?” Williams said. “I’m sure that really threw off the Seahawks in their game plan, huh? I’ve practiced all week. Questionable? The only question in my mind is if they kick the ball off on time or not.”

Williams’ Thanksgiving goal was to weigh 295 pounds at day’s end. “I weigh 270 right now,” he said.

Williams’ wife, Susie, was cooking a 19-pound turkey, but that won’t be enough. Williams had his friends catch a soft-shell turtle in Florida and ship it to him packed in dry ice.

“I boil him up, put some celery, potatoes and carrots in there, take him out of there and then season him down with my homemade super recipe, and then put some 30 weight gravy on his butt,” he said. “I smother him in a crock pot for about two hours, and then push the turkey aside and go to work.”

Williams says his wife does not share in his culinary delight.

“She won’t touch it,” he said. “She called me a cannibal last year.”

Punter John Kidd returned from Findlay, Ohio, to practice with the Chargers Thursday after the death of his father Wednesday evening. Kidd had returned to Findlay earlier this week to be with his father, who had been ill with cancer the past few months.