Earlier this month, we heard that there has been significant recent interest in free agent signal-caller Colin Kaepernick, much more than there has been in the past several years. Given the sustained nationwide outcry over George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police, as well as recent statements made by commissioner Roger Goodell, it seems that clubs are increasingly amenable to signing Kaepernick.
But according to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, if teams are indeed interested, they have not let Kaepernick or his agent know about it. So while it’s possible that clubs are simply waiting to pull the trigger until they can bring him in to their facilities — which is why a number of high-profile free agents are still on the market — it’s also possible that the general push to see Kaepernick back in the league may eventually blow over without him getting another opportunity.
Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn said that Kaepernick should be on every team’s emergency workout list, but he has not spoken with the 32-year-old passer directly and does not have immediate plans to bring him in for a look. Meanwhile, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll recently expressed regret over not signing Kaepernick after he took a free agent visit in 2017, but Seattle is not interested at this time.
As Kaepernick has not played in an NFL game since 2016, any team that does sign him would obviously view him as a backup. Presumably, such a team would be one with a mobile starting quarterback and an offensive system that plays to its QB’s running abilities.
Kaepernick took the league by storm in 2012, when he led the 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance. And while he was solid the following year, his play subsequently began to taper off, and he was ultimately benched in favor of Blaine Gabbert in 2015. Gabbert won the starting job prior to the start of the 2016 campaign, though Kaepernick replaced Gabbert a few weeks into the season and played pretty well down the stretch.
and they shouldn’t. the NFL isn’t a sport of activism. its a sport of talent and knowledge. he possess neither
madtit,
I agree 1000% about not signing him.
He’s been out of football this long. Highly doubt anyone takes a chance on him again.
Al and mntwst,
Who cares about Biden, talk some football you clowns!
The NFL is a league of rich white owners making their money off the athletic ability of mostly minorities, you halfwit.
You most be a troll, but I will bite. I don’t think any of the minorities, or non minorities, are doing too badly in the NFL. It isn’t prison. Nobody is “forced” to play. Also, if there were no minorities in the US, and only white Anglo people inhabited the nation, you really think people wouldn’t still be watching as much football? That is beyond ridiculously naive. That is like saying, if the US was only inhabited by Latin Americans, no one would watch soccer.
He’s a bum, he never should play a game in the NFL again. Disrespect the flag. BUT, What about white lives, Mexican, Asian, dogs, cats, animals. Everybodys lives matter.Black ppls lives also do too. Not just them, everyone in world mattets. Forget Kap he’s retired and wasn’t that good cried cuz he wanted more $$$ not worth it. Just like Antonio Brown cry baby.
Thank God when Joe Biden becomes president he will give Colin Kaepernick the medal of freedom honor the true American hero deserves
Biden should be in prison for pay to play schemes that enriched his family with millions of corrupt money!
lol. Biden is corrupt and Trump is a hero. The amount of flat out stupid people in America is alarming
Kap just seen an opportunity to get some free publicity and money by kneeling, as he knew he was finished as a QB. He is a con man’s con man.
Biden sucks as much as our current president does. can’t believe this is the best that we can come up with to lead.
Anyone who listens to network news is foolish.
Dude stfu he’s a joke. Why don’t they bring back the president WHO STOLE FROM US. OBAMA! Come in with 250k. Walk out with over 250 million. He’s a joke bro get your facts right homie.#TRUMP2020
Sorry buddy, but the biggest punchline was Trumps handling of the activists… or was it the virus… or NAFTA? There’s been so many jokes it’s hard to keep track of.
Wow if Obama was there would’ve been same thing
His handling of NAFTA was amazing. USMCA will be much better for American business and farmers
Bill Clinton is the reason so many businesses left the States under NAFTA
It’s because he sucks for the money he wants and he’s not a starter in the NFL or the Canadian
case7187,
Drinking to much today? Think you mean the CFL the cfl is awful football. It’s not worth the price of admission. It’s cause no one wants him or he would have been signed years ago. After you out of a sport for a year why bother let him rot! He chose what he did. You make a decision and live with what your decisions are.
But so many teams have indicated in public that they would or should have etc. That’s not just idle talk now is it? That would make team leaders hypocrites.
Dude he sucks at playing football, he threw 4 picks in the first half of a game vs the cardinals in his final year as a starter, Nathan peterman accomplished the same feat, also out of football because they are bad at football, who cares about his politics, HES A HORRIBLE FOOTBALL PLAYER
Easy for Lynn and Carroll to say they’d get him on their team in a heart beat, but they just don’t have the roster room….just pandering to the mob and team players to score social issue points with them.
Rich,
They are all blowing smoke. Only saying so to the public this so to soften the blow of whats going on in society.
Whats next some team signing Brown and Kap together, that would be some real Press!!
Has he gotten any better at playing quarterback since he was benched for Blaine Gabbert? No? That’s why he doesn’t have a job.
ted,
Gabbyert lol
try lowering your asking price Kap
Hell $7 million was to low years ago. I hate to see what they are asking for now.
28 W 30 L career losing record…
1 win his last season… hasn’t played in 4 years
Why still talk about him…. go ride off into the sunset!!!
I generally don’t like bringing politics on non political sites, although I will post links for some up to date news some times. However, why still talk about him? Here’s why: the corrupt Mainstream Media just will not stop bringing him up.
Haha, funny how the headlines were so many want him!
It probably breaks Florio’s heart he hasn’t gotten a call yet. The tool Florio probably goes home and curls up in the fetal position and sobs over this.
That’s the best news of 2020 right there
Why would any team reach out to him when Cam is still on the market? I’d think any smart GM would rather have a proven QB in Cam, versus a guy who’s been out of the game for years.
If he’s good enough he’ll play. But the 49’ers did t think so and asked him to take pay cut and he refused. Then he would sign with other teams for back up money. Then the Atlanta practice debacle. I truly feel he doesn’t want to play he just wants this as an additional
Springboard for his career in politics.
The Seahawks did not sign Kap because he demanded to paid $7-10m plus incentives to be their backup QB. They ended up signing Austin Davis for $800k. When you consider the salary cap, and the fact that they were not winning a Super Bowl with Kap or Davis starting, if Wilson got hurt, then why would anyone do that? Kap had an organized workout for all teams that his agent and the NFL set up a year or two ago. 9 teams came, but on the morning of it, he changed the venue of where it would even occur. Even most of the media turned on him then saying “he really doesn’t intend on playing.” I really wish someone had signed him years ago. I really wish someone would now, regardless of whether it is just for public relations, just so this would go away. But, for anyone paying attention, the issue would still not only not go away, but somehow it would find a way to get even worse.
No team can risk signing him now.
If he gets signed and shows that he doesn’t deserve a roster spot the team couldn’t cut him, their entire facility would be burned down.
The contract the Denver offered him years ago was supposedly $7 million a year and he turned it down.
I thnak god every day tht this dumb liberal is not signed and ruining this sport.
You should be asking god for a liberal arts education. At least learn spelling.
Calm down dude it’s the internet. Typos are gonna happen.
Ehhh, considering the source…
This dude has a typo every single day lol. I think he’s too excited.
Agreed. At this point, typing coherently would be the error.
Kap is a bad QB. His fanboys can spin it any way they want. Fact is he is just not a good player.
Why he keep asking for starter money, then?
Here is the facts Kap has been out of active play for years, he is going to be a PR nightmare for any teams that would sign him, he sued and settled against every team in the NFL so why would they give him a sniff. Go to the CFL work your way up and see if you can still play.
Here’s hoping he can be brought into the Chargers quarterback room. Wouldn’t mind at all for Herbert to sit for a full year or two like Rivers did.
Didn’t Florio write that? Politics aside, you can’t trust anything he writes on certain subjects, Kaepernick chief amongst them. His articles on Kaepernick long ago stopped resembling reporting and became long opinion columns. Anything involving NFL discipline or Brady falls into the same category.
I wouldn’t consider anything Florio writes reporting. He is just a loud mouthed tool.
Amen
Why would anyone want to sign him? He’s not that good and hasn’t played in a long time. It’s not a race issue.
He blew his chance last spring when he muffed the workout in Atlanta
The Mets will sign him.
Go pound sand buddy!
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pete Carroll would sign him but respects him too much and thinks he should be a starter….LMFAO…
Hilarious……. If you don’t sign a player your a HALFWHIT?
Life is a little more complicated than that dogmatic way of thinking. Players are signed or not sign for alot more than the whim of a white owner! Go back to sleep. There’s no room for racists chatter here.
Kaep will do to any NFL team that signs him what he has done to NIKE as the face of their marketing. Tank them.
Washed up, problems follow to the team, not worth it, go to Canada
Florio lays in the weeds with the slime on the left, then censors readers comments, he should work for cnn.
If the NFL were to allow him back in the league would that not give them the opportunity to go after that money they paid Colin as a settlement in his collusion case?
Why would anyone want him? He sucks at his job and is a distraction to the team.
Pretty soon, when freedom is gone and the socialists rule, kapernick and everyone else won’t mean a thing.
Prediction: A team will sign him to a contract with a nice signing bonus but non-guaranteed in the event the season is cancelled. Coincidentally shortly thereafter, the season will be cancelled.
The team involved will get PR points, but neither he nor anyone else for that matter will play in 2020. It will be difficult in 2021 justifying a 33-YO player (2021) who will have not played in 4-years
HUGE surprise.
*sarcasm*