JJ Hanrahan is a doubt for Connacht's BKT United Rugby Championship meeting with Ulster on Saturday, but captain Jack Carty will be available for the first interpro of the season.
Hanrahan has made an impressive start to his career with the western province, scoring 23 points off the tee and dictating an impressive Connacht attack in their opening wins against Ospreys and Glasgow.
Pete Wilkins' side welcome Ulster to the Sportsground on Saturday night as they look to make it three home wins in a row to start the seasonal but Hanrahan is a doubt after picking up a minor knee injury in the win against Glasgow on Saturday.
"JJ hurt that knee catching that high ball, it's nothing serious but we'll assess him in the early part of the week," Wilkins said on Tuesday afternoon.
"We won't take any risks with that. We'll have a look at JJ over the next couple of days but otherwise everyone is intact.
"We're pretty good overall, Tom Farrell came off at half time with a wrist issue but he's absolutely fine, has bounced back well this week."
If Hanrahan does miss out, Carty will most likely step back into the side after a facial injury kept him out of Saturday's win against the Warriors.
"He is, he's been cleared to play, his face injury has cleared up really well and is available for selection," Wilkins added.
It's been an impressive start by Connacht, who are one of just four teams in the division who have won back to back games so far.
Ulster are also part of that quartet though, with Dan McFarland following up a nervy win against Zebre with a far more polished performance on Sunday when they saw of the Bulls.
While Ulster won both regular season meetings between the pair last season, Connacht did beat them when it mattered most, coming out victorious in their URC quarter-final at Kingspan Stadium.
And Wilkins is expecting their neighbours to arrive in Galway on Saturday with a point to prove.
"Any game against Ulster comes with enormous edge, a lot of intensity, a lot of physicality, all Interpros do, but certainly the Connacht-Ulster encounters have been particularly abrasive and particularly exciting over the last few seasons.
"You add in the results at the end of last season, that'll add fuel to their fire, so we're expecting them to come at us strong.
"It'll be a really good challenge for us, because we stepped up from Ospreys to Glasgow who are a quality team and I thought we did a good job on the weekend, but to have a big Interpro rivals and all of the emotion that comes with that from both sides, it's a really cool challenge."
This will be a third home game in a row for Connacht to start the season, in stark contrast to last season when they had to play their first three games on the road due in order to facilitate the laying of their new artificial pitch.
Likewise, Ulster have put an artificial surface into Ravenhill as they look to give their backline a faster track to play on.
"I think Ulster are certainly talked about expanding their attacking game, Dan [McFarland] has spoken openly about that.
"They have recognised with the artificial surface going in up there in Belfast and growing their game from being contenders, they're desperate to achieve that silverware. They're seeing that as part of their game they can evolve, on the back of what's been a really well organised, physical, good set-piece and mauling team. It'll be interesting to see where that takes them.
"It'll be really interesting this weekend as well, because our encounters with them over the last few seasons, their structure, box-kicking, mauling game, those physical elements of their game have been really key parts in how they've come at us.
"It'll be interesting to see that end product at the weekend in terms of how they decide to go after us, whether that expansive game does come in, or whether they go back to what has served them so well at times in the past," the Connacht coach added.
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