Daryl Dike is training with West Bromwich Albion's first-team squad and close to returning after eight months out with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Albion head coach Carlos Corberan said the 23-year-old USA striker is in full training for the first time since sustaining the injury in April.
"We need to be careful with him. At the same time we need to push him to help the team," Corberan told BBC Radio WM.
Dike can offset the loss of strikers Josh Maja and Brandon Thomas-Asante.
Maja has been ruled out for months with a fractured ankle, while Thomas-Asante has been selected in a provisional 55-man Ghana squad for next month's Africa Cup of Nations.