On Tuesday, NFL lawyers will depose Colin Kaepernick in New York, Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports writes. Kaep will become the first witness deposed by the NFL in his own complaint. 
No one knows for sure what the NFL will ask the former 49ers quarterback, but a league source tells Robinson that lawyers are likely to concentrate on Kaepernick’s mental outlook during the free agency period last March. Kaepernick says that he was blackballed from the league, but NFL attorneys will question whether he “corrupted his free agent market through a series of factors relating to football skills, contract expectations and motivation to play,” Robinson writes.
It’s expected that he’ll be asked whether he expected to be signed as a starter, what kind of salary he was seeking, and whether his injury history had diminished his skills. League lawyers may also ask him to produce his smoking gun, which would be concrete proof that teams or executives sought to keep him out of the game.
Although the questioning of Kaepernick is a major development in his collusion case, it’s not a sign that the end is near. In fact, Robinson hears that the collusion complaint could drag into 2019 with a number of league execs, owners, and team personnel left on the QB’s deposition list.
By not being in the league, Kaepernick has remained relevant. There were multiple teams that brought him in, Seattle and Baltimore to name two I remember. I am just guessing, but if there was any contact talks as in “we are willing to pay you 2mil” and CK says, “but I want 6 mil and that’s my minimum I’ll take” there is no chance for collusion. My thought is that his smoking gun is going to be that he was offered peanuts vs QB’s with similar stats history….i don’t think that gets the collision verdict. Just my thoughts and guesses.
Didn’t he rework his last contract to become FA sooner? Seem to remember he got paid a lot and changed contract
Yes, he absolutely QUIT his own job and terminated his own contract. Don’t feel sorry for that idiot at all.
That post you just made makes look like idiot. Do some research before posting next time
Where’s your research Tsoft
Yes he opted out of a contract to then sue the league for not offering him a contract. Brilliant! He ought to sue his agent for poor advice and reworking his contracts.
How could you be so dumb?? First of all he reworked his contract to remove the clause that would’ve guaranteed him 16mil in 2017 if he got hurt. Then after the season he opted out of his contact before the John Lynch cut him. Lynch went on record confirming that he was gonna cut Kaepernick regardless of him opting out. I guess facts don’t matter to idiots though.
Again, fire his agent for working that contract and then reworking it and quit being such a d-bag genius.
You’re the d-bag that has NO Clue What he’s talking about. No way were they gonna Play Kaep in 2016 unless he eliminated the injury provision in the contract. I guess he could’ve sat on the bench and collected his money. Either way he wasn’t coming back in 2017, so the agent didn’t do anything wrong. You following, genius???
You mean the same agent that brokered the deal which required restructuring several times and ultimately would’ve led to his being released if he didn’t opt out of that contract? Yeah I’m following genius keep up the good work D bag.
Again, fire the agent don’t sue the league. Had he not opted out of the contract and then sued for not having a contract I’m guessing he would have a stronger case.
RIIIGHT…. No one EVER restructures contracts in the NFL. TOTALLY unheard of. You should fire your parents for sending you whatever school you got your so called education.
He had to restructure it band cause the agent got him a horrible deal that was supposed to be worth a fortune and much guaranteed and then ended up garbage. Fire the agent!
Either way im glad he is not in the league
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Wow a funny guy. Thank god there are jackasses like you in the world that think they are funny because it lets others see just how stupid you really are.
But for a lawsuit, he would have more ground to stand on if he hadn’t of quit. It would help his case if he had been released.
Bingo
Tsoft – you’re special in a lot of ways.
If Kaepernick has any reason for not having a contract right now. His agent is not the biggest although I do agree that the agent is a huge part of it. The biggest I would say would be his girlfriend. That is because the Ravens were going to sign him to a contract but the day before he signed his girlfriend went on twitter and posted a picture that was basically calling Steve Bisciotti, the owner of the Ravens, racist.
link to espn.com
He wants to start. No team is going to start him. His metrics were worse than Fitzpatrick… which is saying a LOT. Go to the CFL, AFL, wherever if you want to play just to play. He was seeking starter money. Back-ups only make money if they are attached to a young QB. Most of those spots are locked up. No one is going to pay their main QB 20-30M and their back-up 6 or 7 M. Just doesn’t work like that.
Amen brother. It’s amazing how many people can’t comprehend this.
You can forget about any smoking gun questions. The lawyers will be more than happy to draw this collusion case out for years, charging fees every chance they get. By the time this winds down Kaepernick will probably be in some Sunshine home.
Will he stand or kneel?
When did they start playing the national anthem in court? This might provide a whole new career opportunity for Roseanne Barr.
He needs to go away. Nobody wants this guy, and if you say it’s not because of his abtics, then you are delusional. RG3 has a job for crying out loud, and he’s garbage.
Seems a lot of people have a problem with someone standing up or kneeling
For his constitutional rights. Just like the Trumpsters standing up for their 2nd
Amendment rights. Why do you have a problem with one right and not a
Problem with another? Just asking, bet there’s not a good answer.
That’s right. I see nothing wrong with Kap kneeling.
Except it wasn’t the cause he got behind, they got behind him and gave him that alibi. He was on the bench pouting over losing his job and they noticed him sitting, that excuse came after the fact. Just like his pig socks which were noticed in photographs 3 weeks after the fact and then all of a sudden it was because of police brutality.
Stop, he wasn’t sitting on the bench because he lost his job
You’re right he wasn’t sitting on the bench pouting… he also wasn’t out there putting himself at the front of the cause or any cause for that matter as he put zero time and money into anything in the several years of being a professional up to that point.
Um, didn’t he donate 100,000 each month for a year? Even whole he was unemployed? Have any of you ever donated over a million bucks to charity when you weren’t getting a paycheck? Yeah, he made a lot while playing, but a million bucks is a million bucks.
I clearly said “up to that point”. He was in the league since 2011 and never gave a dime or minute “up to that point”.
Fair enough. A lot of times people will start giving to charities when something happens that brings their attention to said charity. For him, it just played out that way. At the end of the day, it should be about charities receiving money, which they did. Whether you like him or agree with him, an organization has massively benefitted from him alone.
I’m not sure a good answer is needed since Kaepernick is not trying to make a case that the NFL prevented him for exercising his constitutional rights.
One thing is sure.
He won’t bend the knee to the nfl
Sure he will. But he’ll drop his pants first and do an about face. And if it’s towards Roger Goodell, I’ll stand and applaud!
As long as Kaepernick (or any player for that matter) isn’t in a position to negatively impact their bottom line, the NFL won’t care what he chooses to bend or not bend.
Go away.
Walk slow, or walk fast …
Just go away.
Bob likes knobs…..
absolutely.
Dear Knob, don’t you have an opinion other than walk away.
Nope.
Simply hoping he walks away.
….maybe to DWTS; certainly not DW !
Who cares. Leave political agendas out of the sports world. Plus, as a niner fan, once the league figured out how to defend him he couldn’t make the adjustment. #goaway
I don’t have a problem with an athlete having a political agenda if he is in a sport competing on his own. Muhammad Ali did this back in 1971 when he opposed the war effort in Vietnam and he was prepared to face the backlash for his stance.
If your in a team sport though it’s different because you place your teammates and the management in a very awkward situation.
Political agenda or just self serving? He played that situation and then played Joe Frazier after seeking his aid throughout his ban.
I was just using the Ali situation as an example of how individual sports and team sports vary when a personal agenda exists. As you have pointed out there is often a self serving aspect to some of these agendas whether they occur in a individual sport or team sport.
I don’t think Joe Frazier got played at all since a non fight was of no value to him financially. He did beat Ali in that first fight to become world champion so if Ali’s plan was to play Joe for a chump it backfired badly.
Read up on their history and how he used Frazier to get his license back and also gave him money and then Ali played him. Joe was angry at Ali until the day he died.
Actually Joe and Ali had a very friendly relationship in the early going and why wouldn’t they. They knew together they could earn themselves some record setting paydays. Things did deteriorate badly though over time as you mentioned. A certain amount of trash talking is expected to promote a boxing event but there is always an unspoken agreement that certain things are off limit. Before the final fight Ali called Joe a gorilla and an Uncle Tom. That upset Joe and even leaders in the black community such as NFL legend Jim Brown. From that point on Joe wanted nothing to do with Ali. It’s a shame it ended like that because they were both fantastic boxers who brought out the best in each other in the ring.
U guys are a bunch of stupid dudes
cool bro
It’s weird the raiders said he was good but they won’t sign him every team says he’s good but never show interest in it
Some of y’all are clueless and post dumb stuff I am a disabled vet whether he stood or kneeled for the anthem is irrelevant he should be playing he better than a lot of QB’s in the league that’s on rosters ….facts!!!! And what he was kneeling for is still happening by the people who is supposed to serve and protect…. facts!!!
From the NFL’s perspective he was a guy trying to toss around live grenades. As a former veteran, I’m sure you can understand how much concern something like that creates.
Pro Football + Comments = Everyone’s a doctor. Everyone’s a lawyer. Everyone is more important than the players.
Good stuff!
If true, it doesn’t explain why I’m still cutting grocery coupons from the weekly flyer.