Falcons' Osi Umenyiora not ready to retire

Reports surfaced towards the end of last season that Osi Umenyiora was ready to call it a career, but the Atlanta Falcons defensive end believes he still has some football left.

"Zero plans to retire at this moment," Umenyiora told ESPN's Vaughn McClure on Tuesday. "I feel like I can still play, No. 1. The way things ended last year, I'm just not going to end my career like that. That's not going to happen.

"I feel like when put in the right situation and given the opportunity to play, I would still be able to help somebody. I want to end the way it's supposed to end."

Umenyiora signed a two-year, $11-million contract with the Falcons in 2013. In the first year of the deal, he went on to start 13 of 16 games while recording a team-high 7.5 sacks. Last season, he finished with just 2.5 sacks and didn't start a single game.

The 33-year-old isn't sure what his future in Atlanta holds, but he does know he wants to end his career where it began: with the New York Giants.

"It was nearly a third of my life that I was there in New York, and I did a lot of good things there," Umenyiora said. "As a team, we won some Super Bowls. I was able to go to a couple of Pro Bowls and be like an All-Pro player over there. Unless I'm able to do that somewhere else - which I don't know how likely that is - then it would only make sense, whenever it is that I retire.

"I'm not going to play another 10 years. I'm not going to play another three years. Whenever it is that I retire, I think it would only make sense for me to do that as a Giant."