While it’s possible that free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick‘s polarizing views have contributed to his inability to find a job this offseason, at least one team wouldn’t let his politics stand in the way of a deal. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam revealed Monday that he’d be open to adding Kaepernick, reports Nate Ulrich of Ohio.com.
“If football people came and recommended [him], we’d go with the football people,” said Haslam, though he noted that he and his co-owner and wife, Dee, “have not been involved in any conversations regarding Colin Kaepernick.”
Head coach Hue Jackson has chased Kaepernick in the past, and the Browns’ current veteran QB – Brock Osweiler – might not be on their roster next season. However, Jackson echoed Haslam’s sentiment in telling the NFL Network on Monday that the Browns haven’t had “any discussion” regarding Kaepernick.
Like the Browns, the Broncos also gone after Kaepernick before, but they no longer view him as a fit for their offense (and they like the QBs they have on hand), according to general manager John Elway (Twitter link via Tom Pelissero of USA Today). The potentially backup-needy Lions don’t think Kaepernick is a match for their system, either, per GM Bob Quinn (Twitter link via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press).
Having drawn no interest from teams in need of a No. 1 passer, it’s clear the 29-year-old Kaepernick, a longtime starter, will have to settle for a reserve role – if anyone signs him. One team that could be in the market for a backup is Seattle, whose No. 2 option, Trevone Boykin, is facing two misdemeanor charges stemming from a weekend arrest.
The 23-year-old Boykin could easily continue with the Seahawks, but it’s worth noting that Kaepernick has a high opinion of head coach Pete Carroll, a source told Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. The two are quite familiar with each other, of course, as Kaepernick spent the first six years of his career with NFC West rival San Francisco and engaged in some memorable tilts with the Seahawks when he was a quality starter and the 49ers were contenders. It’s unclear, though, if Carroll is bullish on Kaepernick or if he’d be willing to ditch Boykin. What is clear, according to Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times, is that the Seahawks don’t want to invest much money in a backup for Russell Wilson. That could rule out any chance of a Kaepernick-Seahawks union.
The team that signs Kaepernick goes to the bottom of this fans list!
why?
How about the team that signs Adrian Peterson? Or the team that has Ray Rice?
All three have it pretty bad. Kaep was expressing his first amendment rights even though I don’t support him, AP disciplined his kid a little harsh, and Ray Rice beat his wife and none of them will find a job when drug addict and drunk johnny Manziel will get a job.
He’s retired now, but the worst for me was Michael Vick.
Not trying to diminish his crime, as it was serious, but at least he’s paid for it. He served time in jail and has made efforts to improve his public image. Rice and AP got what? Community service hours and a fine?
I honestly believe what Vick did was way worse. He tortured and killed dogs for years. He showed no remorse, he lied at the beginning of the investigation, and his efforts to improve his image do not seem genuine. However, Rice
and AP should have been given stricter sentences. Why they didn’t, I don’t know. Why is Josh Gordon suspended for smoking weed? Yes, he’s been given a few chances, but it’s just weed.
Because he’s a member of the Cleveland Browns
Maybe I misunderstood, but i dont understand the comparison between those other players and Kap and Manziel. Are you trying to say based on race manziel will get another shot but Kap wont. Because Peterson did play last year, and Ray Rice was already on the decline. Mike Vick found work after serving time, Tyreke Hill was grabbed by chiefs and Joe Mixon will most likely be drafted. So if youre trying to imply its a race issue, that doesnt exactly hold up considering those “racists” have given other players 2nd chances because of talent. So if Kap cant find work, it most likely is due to a perceived lack of talent.
I wish the Hawks would sign Rice.
Pretty sure nobody cares
why isn’t anyone asking themselves if Kaepernick wants to play behind a guy that was considered his equal and division rival (at one point) in Wilson? If I were him, I’d be offended especially if he thinks he can still play. The guy has the skills and talent, if he needs to learn he should be learning from a veteran not a guy that’s a year younger than him and is basically him with a better team and system.
1. Beggars can’t be choosers
2. Shut up, Wilson is a 3x pro-bowler and super bowl champion. In 2015 he lost Jimmy Graham and Marshawn Lynch, and he still set franchise records and lead the league in passer rating. He did all that with Doug Baldwin and barely anyone else, oh and no OL.
Kaep had Crabtree and Boldin and didn’t touch Wilson. Kaep was a good QB for a couple of year, but Wilson was/is better than Kaep. Not even close.
yea he can actually. There’s still a football season to be had and injuries happen.
What’s Wilson’s stats have to do with anything? I didn’t say he was better or worse than him. I said/meant before his team fell apart he and Wilson were always compared to each other, division rivals, and considered equals. Running off his stats after the team fell a part does nothing to change that. Kaep had squat to work with and his HC was on his way out.
What NFL GM or Head Coach wants to deal with all that baggage and drama for average back-up QB…idiot curtailed his own career. Now he can not stand for anthem on Sundays on his couch. Bad Back-Up QB’s Matter!!!
what baggage and drama? the man was kneeling and he said he wouldn’t do it again. What drama? Heck he’s been ignored by the media for half the season and his teammates loved him.
What drama? Did you watch any games during the season. Media circus focused on Colin. Sometimes its better to focus on earning that 14 million and not say or do anything that further divides us and thats what he did. Its why when any conversation about Colin starts, it becomes political …
That’s not drama. That’s the media who focused on his kneeling…because it was the hot topic at the moment. They moved on like they tend to do.
heck even when he kept kneeling for the rest of the season they ignored him. The cameras eventually stopped showing him.
Regardless none of this has anything to do with the football team. Bringing drama is dividing the locker room or causing problems with the team. Players are split in the NFL locker rooms anyway based on politics, inviting him in won’t change things. Whether he took a knee or not I guarantee there are players in NFL locker rooms across the league who agree with what he did.
So…what drama?
Go to work and draw attention to the owner and company for something you believe in and see if you still have a job.
There’s a time and a place for everything but not in the work place.
Now he can go protest for Soros and make a living that way
How many other players have kneeled this season? Hmm.
How many players have pledged money to charities like Kaepernick?
They still have jobs. They brought “attention” to their boss.
Btw, my boss has marched with me at police brutality rallies. If my boss didn’t share the same views as I and we couldn’t come to a mutual agreement on me protesting my right to LIVE then I would promptly find a new job.
“Btw, my boss has marched with me at police brutality rallies.”
its good that you and your mom do stuff together
“If my boss didn’t share the same views as I and we couldn’t come to a mutual agreement on me protesting my right to LIVE then I would promptly find a new job.”
whose basement would you live in then?
your name suits you
ouch, brutal. took you a while to come up with that didnt it?
this coming from a guy who randomly threw out the #1 most used internet troll insult. I think my grandparents were sending that via carrier pigeon.
yawn
try harder
tell me, is it tiring carrying around all that white guilt?
Just because he said he wouldn’t do it again doesn’t mean people have forgotten. A lot of people hated that, and you don’t need bad publicity for a backup
please…people forgot as soon as the NFL cameras stop paying attention to him. You hadn’t heard a peep out of him for half the season, yet he kept kneeling. Steelers had Mike Vick and after the first couple weeks and they kept winning. People forgot Vick was there until he had an opportunity to play. Even then it was only a small amount who complained.
People focus on wins and what the lead story is. If he goes to Seattle and Russell Wilson tears it up all season and has an MVP type year no one would care if Kaep was kneeling on the sideline the cameras are on Wilson.
The kid in KC beat a woman and people plain forgot until the media brought it up and he was the lead story and top player in KC.
RG3 was already released so he definitely won’t be on the team.
No one cares
This was supposed to be in response to fish4bass
If the Browns sign him he will STILL NOT be on an NFL ROSTER……!!!
did your parents have any children that lived?
I wonder what his sticker price is… the Steelers once employed a guy named Vick that wasn’t all that popular.
And that was disgusting. Screw Michael Vick.
Have to disagree here, what he did was despicable, but the guy served time in prison for what he did. He deserved the right to be given a second chance. Its not as though he was given a slap on the wrist and allowed to play again, he did time.
Yes, he did do time. But it’s not like he was given a choice in the matter. He’s not remorseful; the only thing he regrets is the fact that he got caught.
Yeah 49ers are poster boys of the NFL for discipline right?
Kaepernick to Oakland…McGloin and Cook didnt look too good. He could back up Carr.
He voiced his opinion, I am voicing mine.
Anyone that disrespects our anthem, is disrespectful to the vets that have fought for the freedom of this country. He can find another means of protest.
according to whom? those freedoms you mentioned include the right to kneel for the anthem.
He spoke out and said he’s not disrepecting the veterans. That was not his intention. He even MET with veterans and came to a positive compromise.
You want to talk disrespectful?!?! What’s disrespectful is you clowns who would rather respect a dang flag than those ACTUAL freedoms those vets fought for. Which is EVERYTHING Kaepernick stands for.
A decades old song and a flag have nothing to do with your respect for the veterans. The whole anthem and flag ceremony before a game is a paid advertisement for the military to the NFL. It’s what’s in your HEART and your intention!
And whats in his heart is respect and admiration for a dictator who oppressed and murdered thousands of his own people, and that alone makes kaepernick despicable and insincere, since you know this was all about fighting for the oppressed.
Castro had people killed, but so did the regime before him. So did the American government. No one on either side is innocent.
So because the regime before him killed people that makes him respectable? That could be the single dumbest thing ive ever read.
are you LISTENING to what he’s saying or are you making stuff up? You seem to be pulling your own assumptions out your azz for what he’s doing rather than listening to the reasons why he’s doing what he is doing.
But how he feels and what is in his heart isn’t really my concern. How ever he feels about Castro has nothing to do with him playing qb on a team; this is america, not cuba.
Except it is relevant, because he took his “stand against oppression” on the football field as a member of the team, not as an offseason cause. As a side note, you have to be incredibly ignorant and/or stupid to say you are against oppression but openly admire a brutal dictator, and guess what, human rights oppressor. If he cant see the hypocrisy in that, that would leave me to believe whats keeping him unsigned is one thing, sheer stupidity.
Lets get this straight, this had nothing to do with standing up to oppression, it was publicity because he was benched, he stated he wouldnt not stand again until poc were no longer oppressed, and yet now he says he’ll stand again? Did I miss the part where he solved oppression, or was it all an act, and he misjudged how it would pan out?
Cory u need a hug! Breath…
BS. I’m a vet, and what Kaep did had NOTHING to do with me or the military.
AMEN ChiSoxCity! These people have NO idea what it really meant in the hearts and souls of the Veteran’s of the United States of America! Those “2 or 3 year Vets” who publicly said they “understand” did so to be “politically correct”. I served our Nation for 31 years, have been an NFL fan for over 50 years!! My Country comes FIRST! This guy’s “reason” was for personal gain… PERIOD!! He wasn’t in the “Headlines” so he needed to do something to gain attention to himself. He’s a self absorbed, pathetic POS. End of story. And for all of you “politically correct”, MISINFORMED, “I know everything about Football” people out there who support him, shame on you! You obviously could care less what this meant to those of us who wrote a Blank Check to our Country, payable with OUR lives… I could care LESS about your response to my reply to this post. You have NO effect on me. I haven’t forgotten where I came from and what I stand for. Some of these comments are un-FREAKIN-real…
I think you definitely misunderstood Chisoxsity. Hes one of those that support him. His reply was to fish4bass101 stating that it was disrepectful to soldiers, and Chisoxcity was calling bs on that saying it wasnt.
Not all vets found it disrespectful. After all one of the freedoms we were fighting for was the first amendment.
But a lot did…
their opinions dont matter, just the ones who agree with chisuxcity and hawker. any one who disagrees with them is just wrong
I guess being labeled a “traitor” by shallow minded people is the price you pay for standing up to oppression in this country. That’s ok, because peaceful protests by courageous people made it possible for people like Kaep to play professional football. So it’s a price worth paying.
2200 yards, 16 TDs, 4 ints… those are pro QB stats. Nuff said.
preach!
The people who BRING the negativity blame him for their actions. They should have some accountability.
Stop with the race issue. 70% of the players in the NFL are African American. You don’t see me crying every time a offensive lineman doesn’t find a job
TJECK109, your post pretty much summarizes why we still have racial tension in America. Kaep was “crying” about unarmed blacks being murdered by police while in custody. Apparently that’s not important enough for you to hear about it, but telling blacks to remain silent won’t make it go away. If it was a family member or neighbor getting killed in this fashion with you watching it happen, would you be so dismissive. No, you wouldn’t.
Yeah, not to dismiss your rant there, but if i had to guess im assuming he was referring to the fact that people are claiming hes being blackballed rather than blaming lack of talent. After all, this is a league that gave donte stallworth a second chance, along with mike vick, adrian peterson played again after facing backlash, tyreke hill played and so will joe mixon. So to say hes being blackballed because of race is complete nonsense.
Exactly my point. If Kaep or anyone else want to use race for being blackballed it’s flat out wrong. It’s also wrong to say he’s being blackballed for being a distraction. If you have talent they will take your distractions. TO, Bryant and the list goes on and on. Heck even Manziel was kept around.
Other black men are more of a threat to black men than any cop. Why not raise awareness to that travesty in a way that doesn’t say F you to the people who fought for and love this country?
he is…white people don’t care enough. Historically nothing happens unless white people start caring enough. Police brutality has been a problem for generations. Blacks start destroying white people’s property and kneeling for flags….”oh NOW it’s a problem.”
and he’s not saying F you to the people who fought for and love this country. How hard is that to understand? Those same people who fought for and love this country have SPOKEN UP FOR HIM to do what he’s doing. He even stopped sitting and started kneeling at their request.
Hey dont bring facts into thats, that doesnt suit the race-baiters narrative.
Half of his yards were created after the catch. Also he averaged less than 200y/g in a passing league, not exactly qb stats.
But hey, blake bortles has 58tds/34ints last 2 years along with 8300 yards, i guess hes a great qb, unless of course you look past the stats themselves.
He says he will stand for the anthem next season, but does he even know the words to O Canada?
He needs to say he is sorry. We as Americans are easy to forgive. Look at Jason Giambi, people forgave. If he wants his career back…..that’s what he needs to do.
I will be honest and clear.. In today’s America we finally respect our Veterans and Soldiers.. Our people might not agree on government parties, but we mostly respect the US troops.. With this connection comes the American flag and the national anthem. A lot of Americans look at Kapernick kneeling as like spitting on the American flag and in the faces of American soldiers.. No fan base wants Kapernick.. If he never took the action of protesting during anthem a team would have swept he up for $35,000,000 in one hour.. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed.. i can only imagine what his agent said behind close doors. Lmao
This connection to the flag and the anthem is what I don’t follow. While I understand why you may want to make this emotional reaction, I don’t understand why you feel everyone else should have to follow your views on it.
I’d sign the guy. Good for him. He’s not that talented. But he’d be a fine backup. I respect what he did. Just because some people attach a song to what they believe in doesn’t mean everyone has to. It’s only disrespectful to veterans if his intent was to disrespect veterans. It is he realized it would happen, but if that was the message he was trying to get across. Otherwise it’s suggesting everyone should have to think like them. Many people believe the flag stands for a country and not just soldiers. And if you want to take a shot at your country because you don’t think it’s as good as it should be, good for you. I don’t blame the guy. I would freaking hate this country if I were black.
* not disrespectful if he realized it would happen, only if it was the intention of his message
How can you say he showed no remorse? Do you know about his work with PETA? He has done more than any other athlete I know of to try to make amends for what he did, which I agree, was horrific.