CINCINNATI -- If you have already benched Cincinnati Bengals receiver A.J. Green on your fantasy team and penciled him in as "out" for Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens, don't.

His head coach gave a rather sizable nugget of hope Friday afternoon that Green could play this weekend.

After uttering his normal "we'll see," when asked about Green's status for Sunday's game, coach Marvin Lewis added that his injured Pro Bowl superstar has been progressing well through his rehab duties all this week.

"He looks good and each day of this week, he has looked better and better, and [Friday], he looked like football form," Lewis said.

For a third straight day this week, Green (toe) was training off to the side of the Bengals' practice surface, going through rehab and conditioning drills that tested his speed, agility, quickness and cut-ability. The fourth-year receiver has spent all season battling an injury to his right big toe that he has all but called turf toe. Since aggravating the injury in a practice three weeks ago, he has seen a pair of foot specialists who told him to expect to try to return this weekend.

During this latest workout, Green was seen during the open practice period jogging and performing various agility and speed drills. He didn't seem to favor the injury much when he was put through a series of short bursts and sprints.

Since last Friday, Lewis has remarked about how true Green's progression has been to the doctors' prognoses.

"It's a feel thing," Lewis said about Green's injury. "It's a feel and pain and tolerance thing that way."

After resting Green last week and the week before, the Bengals are hoping to get the wideout beyond the uncomfortable feeling that popped up in that practice three weeks ago. They know he's going to have a measure of pain associated with the toe the rest of the season, but they want him to not have to worry about whether the feel is off or the pain intolerable the rest of the season.

"That's what we're trying to avoid," Lewis said. "We're trying to get over the hump and find the solution that, other than totally shutting him down the rest of the season, will get him the rest of the season or as much of the season as we can get him.

"I don't want him to be frustrated by it. I want him to feel good about when he tells me, 'OK, I'm ready to go.'"

One week after Green was injured in the Bengals' season opener at Baltimore, he tried to give the foot a go in the Week 2 game against Atlanta. He only lasted six plays before having to come out.

In three-plus games, he has 17 catches for 314 yards and two touchdowns.