Barlow, who broke his left leg in sickening fashion against Port Adelaide in round 14 last year, has resumed full training and could line up for WAFL side Peel Thunder against Perth on June 4.
"He will train, probably fully tonight," Dockers coach Mark Harvey said.
"I would expect that, nothing going wrong over the next week and a half, that he plays down there at Peel Thunder.
"I'd like to think he's playing Saturday week.
"We've been talking about that (whether to play him in the league side or reserves) within the coaching group and the fitness group so we'll just see how he comes up after a week and a half of full training.
"We'll just ease him in though.
"He's going to need at least three or four or five weeks (before he can push for an AFL recall) and we'll be able to tell by the way he's playing as to how long that either takes for him to get back in the team, or whether we need to play him longer at WAFL level."
Barlow's impending return comes as welcome relief for Fremantle, which lost another one of its key players this week when ruckman Aaron Sandilands was ruled out for four weeks with a toe injury.
The Dockers (5-3) take on St Kilda at Subiaco on Saturday and Harvey backed former Adelaide ruckman Jonathon Griffin to fill the void left by Sandilands.
- AAP
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