Rory Best will sit down with Ulster bosses this week to discuss his future.
The Ireland skipper has already announced his decision to quit at Test level following this year's Rugby World Cup in Japan.
But the 37-year-old could be tempted into another season with Ulster if talks with head coach Dan McFarland and head of Rugby Operations Bryn Cunningham prove fruitful.
"We've had a few discussions and we always said we'd leave it until later in the season and see how I'm feeling," Best said.
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"I'll just see where their heads are and where my head is and see if we can match up."
Best faces a six-week absence after picking up an ankle injury in last Saturday;'s Champions Cup defeat to Leinster .
He hopes to play for Ulster again this season, with the province still on course to make next month's PRO14 play-offs.
"It's strange," Best said.
"Some days you wake up and go, 'That's it, I'll get to the World Cup and I've done enough'.
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"Then we get to occasions like Saturday and you go, 'This is a team that actually - for the first time in a long time at Ulster - seemed to rise to the big occasion'. You want to be a part of that.
"Then the news of Jack (McGrath) signing (from Leinster)...to play alongside Jack at club level would be class.
"But ultimately I've got to weigh everything up and not just have a knee-jerk reaction.
"I think from an Ulster point of view they're not going to change their policy, if I stay or don't stay.
"Obviously I'll go off a national contract and they'll have to find the money for me if I stay. But it's not as if they're going to sign a replacement for me."
