Tony Mowbray is determined to avoid pushing Niall Huggins too hard after the youngster made his comeback last week after more than a year out through injury.
The defender has been sidelined since September 2021 with first a stress fracture to his back, and then a heel problem, but Mowbray watched him play 45 minutes for Sunderland's U21s against Reading at Eppleton on Friday night.
After coming through that unscathed, Mowbray says there have been conversations over how quickly to ease the 21-year-old back into training with the first-team, and one option was to include him in today's less-demanding session on the eve of tomorrow's trip to Blackburn Rovers.
