Colin Kaepernick may still be training for another opportunity, despite unusual circumstances surrounding the former 49ers starter. The free agent quarterback was working out in Houston on Thursday morning, Yahoo.com’s Charles Robinson reports (on Twitter).
Indicating he observed the entirety of the workout, Robinson added the 30-year-old passer “looked good” during a 90-minute session — with what Robinson describes as featuring traditional quarterback drills — at a Houston-area field. This appeared to be a private workout with Kaepernick and his trainers. Robinson did not see any NFL teams in attendance and added the Texans were not believed to have known about it (Twitter link).
While Kaepernick has been out of football since the 2016 season, this morning routine could well illustrate he intends to keep trying to get back into the league. Although, those odds could be incredibly slim since he’s involved in a collusion lawsuit against the NFL.
Nevertheless, Kaepernick ranked seventh on PFR’s UFA quarterbacks, and five of the top six have agreed to deals, with No. 1 Kirk Cousins expected to do so soon. Lower-tier passers like Chase Daniel, Tom Savage and Mike Glennon have also come to terms with teams. Kaepernick, the leader of the 2016-initiated racial inequality-themed protests during national anthems, launched his lawsuit in October after even lower-level quarterbacks were signed last year.
again with this guy…come on
All it does is create racial tension and political divide by talking about this guy…Instead of talking about all the teams that don’t want him why can’t you guys just write an article when somebody signs him
Good luck CK! You put your career on the line, I respect that immensely!
Is he still suing the NFL? If so I can’t see anyone ever giving him another chance.
After he got paid he took some huge hits than year and wasn’t the same. Was like he was afraid to get hit hard and stopped running as much plus he has terrible field vision, missed wide open guys more than I can remember a qb doing and he never could get that touch pass down. I do think there is way worse qb’s that have back up jobs so he should get a chance at that at least but I doubt he ever will get it.
If Glennon, Cutler and whatever that was Denver had behind center all get a chance to be starters going into last season then Kaep should at least be a backup somewhere.
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FYI, since his sophomore season of 2012, Keapernick rushing attempts have represented 28.9% of his passing attempts, 22.1%, 21.8%, 18.4% 2015, also his worst season as a passer) and 20.8%. Aside from 2015, that’s a pretty steady rate from the time he became a full-time starter in 2013 through his last year in the league, so far.
Working out in Houston though the Texans are being Trumpish and won’t give CK any consideration.
He kneeled his way to permanent unemployment!
Yawn.
He might be better than some of these awful backups but until he is willing to be paid like an awful backup the comments about that he should be on a roster somewhere are a bit unfounded. Maybe he is willing to do that, I don’t know, but at one point he wasn’t getting jobs because he wanted to start and be paid like one.
Well, he should have a chance to workout and compete, in which case he would probably be paid either as one of the best back-ups in the league, something like Nick Foles was paid in 2017, or as one of the middle of the road starters, say in the #15-20 range, setting aside all of the guys playing under their rookie contracts.
And he’s been saying for months that he’d be willing to return to the league as a back-up.
I will do everything I can to not support him or the team if they sign that scumbag.
He had a contract and opted out. He screwed himself.
Now he’s suing the league and expects a job? If a team signs him and they cut him it will be an uproar. Not worth the headache
I really do not understand how on ever single one of these articles, someone, if not a few, refer to him opting out. The niners told them they were going to cut him. The opting out is a total formality. You can say that he screwed himself by kneeling (because owners are ignorant), but he did not screw himself by opting out.
Just to echo what Casey said, it was a mutual option and the 49ers were not going to pick it up. If you’re going to pipe off, at least be accurate.
Which was it a mutual option or was he going to be cut? He was under contract it wasnt a mutual option
All he did was kneel. I respect these guys taking a stand (pun intended) for what they want to shed light on, but do more then just perform a publicity stunt. Take a hint from JJ Watt and DeShaun Watson, and every other NFL player who gets out in the community and impacts it. I would have more respect for his stance if he did that.
All he did was tarnish the NFL brand
And that’s why he’s out of football . He made the shield look bad
He’s done more than kneel. According to Fox61.com (1/31/18), between Sept. 2016 and January 2018, he donated a million dollars to community organizations working on “homelessness, at-risk families, education, community-police relations, prison reform, inmates’ right, reproductive rights, hunger and more”…including “a recent donation in partnership with rapper T.I. went to building materials and labor for an organization in Houston that’s helping neighborhoods affected by Hurricane Harvey.” He’s also visited Rikers Island – got into it with the Corrections Officers Union, I think – and Ghana.
Going farther back, Jeffrey Martin penned a piece on Bleacher Report titled “Russell Wilson vs. Colin Kaepernick: Not Saint vs. Sinner” that was posted on Sept. 3, 2014. In it, Martin recounted visits by Kaepernick to his old high school, one starting off with the Mayor’s prayer breakfast, that included him and his dad helping the offensive coordinator of Colin’s HS football team to install plays he had run in college and the pros, but also “he visited Jessica’s House, a grief support program for children who have experienced loss, and spent a few hours there.” On an earlier trip back home, Kaepernick made a surprise appearance at graduation, without TV or the press in tow, to honor his old HS head coach. It’s a lengthy piece, so feel free to check it out for yourself.
I wouldn’t be shocked if Kaepernick has made the requisite visits to sick kids in hospitals that most players make, but his involvement in the community is more unique than that, and probably just as extensive as any of his peers.
I’m glad he is doing well the XFL is coming back enjoy it Colin
3 Words! Canadian Football League!
Vince McMahon has him a the face of the XFL