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Running back

believes he will be playing his final game for the Cardinals on Sunday and is looking to showcase his skills for other NFL teams.

“That’s my mindset,” Wells told the Arizona Republic. “I’m just going to go out there and put my best foot forward for all the 31 other teams that’s watching.”

Toe and knee injuries have limited Wells to seven games this season. The f o u r-ye a r ve t e ra n ha s rushed for 234 yards on 88 carries and five touchdowns.

“This is performancebased business, and I don’t know if I’ve done things up to our organization’s standards here,” he said. “Maybe it’s a discussion that we’ll have later on, but who knows?”

The Cardinals face the 49ers in their season finale.

Eagles quarterback

says he is not interpreting his upcoming start Sunday as an audition.

“I’m not going out to audition for a job,” Vick was quoted as saying by USA Today. “I’m going out to try and win. My play and what I’ve done for this league and the accolades that I have speak for themselves.

“The thing I want to do is improve. Whatever happens next year happens. I’m just going to be a guy who, wherever I’m at, I’m going to make the team better.”

The Eagles plan to start Vick because of an injury to

who had taken over the job.

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the season and playoffs. Manningham tore two ligaments in his left knee in Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks.

In his first season with the 49ers, the fifth-year wideout had 42 catches for 449 yards and one touchdown in 12 games.

season is over after he suffered cracked ribs and a bruised lung in Sunday’s loss to the Panthers, and coach

says he is unsure who will start the regularseason finale at San Diego —

or

“Our plan right now is to work both of them this week, and then we’ll see how practice goes and then later in the week we’ll be ready to name a starter,” Allen said. “We’ll get both those guys reps in practice with the first team this week.”

With the playoffs hopes teedefensive end

said he has come to accept the “very real possibility” that this is his final season in New York. He will be an unrestricted free agent.

“I’ve definitely thought about it, but that’s pretty much out of my control at this point,” said Umenyiora, drafted by New York in 2003. “The only thing I can control is the effort I give, and I’ll continue to do that.” Giants’ tering,

a linebacker who was named the most valuable player of the Bears’ 1963 NFL championship game victory, has died in Austell, Ga., the New York Times reported. He was 79. His wife, said the cause was complications of dementia.