Adelaide duo Riley Thilthorpe and Callum Ah Chee will make comebacks from injury in the high-stakes clash against Hawthorn on Thursday night.
But the Crows' all-time leading goalkicker Taylor Walker, despite being fit again after a hamstring injury, will return in the state league.
Walker had been sidelined since straining a hamstring three weeks ago.
"He is all about what's best for the squad," Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks said of the 36-year-old veteran.
"Tex playing at SANFL is him getting a game of football, otherwise we start to stretch out to five or six weeks (without playing), so it's him having a hitout.
"We can train match simulation, but it's not the same, it doesn't have the same pressures, the unknown."
