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Show Former SU player gets another chance to play pro football don't want to just watch for another season." Joe feels that last year's experience at Seattle should improve his chances this "year at New Orleans. CEDAR CITY Joe Wells will get a second chance to 1 play professional football in the National Football League, but the site will be 2,574 miles removed from Seattle where he got his first try. Wells, who was an all-Rocky all-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference middle linebacker while playing for Southern Utah State College, will head for New Orleans Saints and Coach Bum Phillips. "I will be going to camp on a make-it basis, which means that I could be cut at any time. I think I have the ability to play in the NFL, and it's pleasing to know that someone wants you and thinks you have some ability," Wells says. It should be a bit easier for the 6-3, 235 pound Wells to make it at New Orleans, at least the Saints' basic 3-4 defense is much more similar to SUSC's 5-2 than was the Seattle defense. "I'm not sure whether I'll be going at inside or outside linebacker," Wells explains. "Actually, "Ac-tually, I'd like to know both positions to make myself more versatile." Wells, who played high school ball for Cedar City High, got his second chance when New Orleans purchased his contract from the Seattle Seahawks who had placed the four-year SUSC letterman on mandatory waivers. While with the Seahawks, Wells played in five preseason games and made it down to the final cut. "We concentrated con-centrated very intensely on football, so it wasn't really like missing-laying missing-laying out a season. This year I'm in better shape; I should go into camp a bit lighter. I'm hungry for football. I v., . , 1. " m K fc' . . . -vr ft , , j r a - Joe Wells |