Last night, we heard that there were 11 NFL teams slated to attend Colin Kaepernick‘s workout in Atlanta on Saturday. That number has apparently already increased dramatically. “More than 24” teams are now expected to be at the showcase, sources told Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
The league recently reversed course and declined to give Kaepernick or his reps a list of who would be attending. It’s unclear at the moment if there will be any high level execs or coaches in attendance, or if it will mostly be lower-level scouts. Meanwhile, Kaepernick has arrived in Atlanta and is preparing for the workout as of this morning, Schefter tweets. In the same tweet, Schefter notes that since the league wouldn’t provide names of the receivers they were going to have on-hand for the workout, Kaepernick is “taking up the former NFL WRs who volunteered to fly in on their own to help him at workout.”
No word yet on who those former NFL receivers are, but there could be some big names. What has never been made clear is how the workout came to be or who exactly came up with the idea. Interestingly, the decision was apparently “made at the highest level of leadership and with the exclusion of many of commissioner Roger Goodell’s usual advisers,” sources told Mike Jones of USA Today.
Jones writes that in addition to team personnel departments and players, people within the league office were surprised by the news on Tuesday as well. Jones also reports that Goodell had “many discussions” on the Kaepernick issue with Jay-Z, a partner in the league’s new social justice initiative. It sounds like the workout came at the direct behest of Goodell, who is apparently looking to quash the criticism the league has faced the past few years for their handling of Kaepernick.
Teams apparently inquired with the league office about Kaepernick’s readiness, but those inquiries were apparently made with an eye toward 2020 rather than the rest of this season. It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of the workout, and we should know more soon.
the fact that Jay-Z is an NFL advisor just shows how silly this all is.
One of the most successful self made businessmen of the last 30 years advising one of the largest corporations in America, as SILLY as it is SHOCKING!!!
Trump 2020
From CBS DC: “Before making it big, Jay-Z was a crack dealer in Brooklyn at the age of 13. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, he called drug dealers in Brooklyn his “role models” growing up.
He also has a history of violence. When he was 12, he shot his 16-year-old brother and he stabbed a record producer in December 1999.”
Yeah, great guy. I’m sure you’d be pleased if your daughter brought a drug dealer home. Idiot.
Your right. Anybody who survives terrible circumstances in their youth to become wealthy are scum. Should have just been born with a silver spoon like overlord Trump. Then he could have morals …
It’s you’re.. Idiot
LOL! Whitest comment of the day goes to this guy!
Ik this is obviously a football site but some people may not really know who Jay-Z is. Shady past? No doubt. But he might be one of the greatest “American Dream” stories in the history of the country. Dude rose from poverty and welfare to become a billionaire music mogul and international business icon.
Id be ecstatic if my daughter brought home someone like that.
So you would be ecstatic if your daughter brought a person like Jay-Z home? He has a beautiful wife at home, that he’s admittedly cheated on multiple times. Who in their right mind would want that for their daughter? Just because he’s a great business man doesn’t mean he’s a good person. Have a little respect for you daughter.
Bingo
Sounds like Trump … ooops …
Are talking about Jay-Z or our dear leader? Sounds pretty similar except Jay-Z admitted it like a man and FDT paid hush money from campaign funds to keep his multiple infidelities quiet.
Which you you have your daughter bring home?
im not saying he is successful, but it just seems like clout chasing to have someone without any experience with the league in that position.
No experience with what? Suggesting what a white American ownership group should do about racial issues? No. You’re right. He has no idea about any of that. And I’m pretty sure Jay-Z needs zero clout. He’s had plenty for enough lifetimes.
Crack dealer
Another Trade rumors article abt this …..
come on guys…rumors are for active players. this malcontent hasn’t played in 4 yrs
All this for a guy who lost his starting job to Blaine Gabbert?
Blaine Gabbert was colluding with Betsy Ross and Hank Williams Jr to get Kap out of the league.
Lol
ok THAT made me laugh
Most disliked player (by fans) in NFL history. No team is going to anger it’s fans by signing him.
I have no issues with Americans using their natural rights. Weird how so many Americans hate the Constitution.
Agreed Democrats are ruining this country
The GOP is the one who is disregarding the constitution. Ignoring subpoenas, etc
(*cough cough* the constitution doesn’t mention anything about subpoenas)
Conservatives get a hard on when you say constitution. They think your talking about the 2nd amendment all the time because they don’t know anything else it says lmao
The only people who are angry at Kaepernick are pathetic snowflake boomer. Get a life.
” Goodell is apparently looking to quash the criticism the league has faced the past few years for its handling of Kaepernick”… hasn’t really done a good job on that front here haha
The only criticism I have is how they are trying to bend over backward for this idiot. He’s been handled properly up until this point. Get the memo dude, nobody wants you to play for their team.
I wasn’t aware that people who speak out on social justice are “idiots”
How come he didn’t knell
and wasn’t a social justice warrior when he was a starting QB?
I love that this keeps getting underneath the skin of so many people. It’s a workout. And people are losing their minds. I honestly couldn’t care less. However, it’s typically the side that threw around the term “snowflakes” who are the most upset about this. Maybe he’ll get a backup job. I’m a cowboys fan, and I can almost guarantee that he’s better than Cooper Rush.
cowboys fan….that explains it all….
Lol solid retort. Pretty sure the cowboys haven’t kneeled which is clearly what triggers you, so why attack me for that?
He’s from New York. Their tough guy attitude is their whole schtick
high plains. that was s joke ahole.
I hate everyone.
There were plenty of other leagues of football he could’ve played in and proven his worth. Nobody knows if he will accept a contract for backup money in a backup role.
I don’t remember another incident like this taking place at any other time for any other player. The only thing that comes close to me is all of those UDFA’s that were having a private workout session a year or so ago.
What other failed, flawed, back up QB would get this kind of special treatment after being out of the league for 4 years?
“What has never been made clear is how the workout came to be or who exactly came up with the idea.”
I’d like to think Vince McMahon was behind this because it’s a pretty clever way to embarrass the NFL (although they generally don’t need much help in that area).
Weird that 24 or more teams are coming to scout a guy no one wants to sign…as soon as the NFL endorsed it.
Or they felt compelled to send a representative and kick the tires with no desire of actually buying.
There would only have to be a free buffet and open bar to get Steve Keim to come.
Him calling the ravens owner racist, the guy who hired the 1st ever black gm in nfl history wayyyy before the rooney rule
Wearing a fidel castro tshirt and praising a man whos killed millions
Wearing pig cop socks
Kaepernick has nobody to blame but hinself for why hes out of the league.
Kenny stills kneeled. Still in the league. Malcom Jenkins has been very vocal abour racism snd stuff and kneeled. Still was in the league.
Crooked cops are PIGS. I agree
So you’re saying wearing a Castro shirt to a press conference denouncing oppression wasn’t exactly genius?
“T-shirt Colin Kaepernick wore during the press conference where he denounced his homeland as racist and where he proclaimed: “I have to stand up for people that are oppressed.”
“I’m going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police…There’s people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable.”
And the pig socks? He wore them and three weeks later somebody noticed them in a photo and asked about them. Just another obvious sign he was not out in front of anything, the cause lined up behind him when he was on the bench pouting over losing his starting role and it became convenient to claim he was protesting something. Up until that time he never gave a minute or a dime to the cause despite being in the league for years. He opted out of his contract, declined others and then cried that he was being denied a chance. Finally taking the hush money to go away as it was cheaper to pay him off then to fight the lawsuit when the league had bigger issues at hand, so much for standing for something when the checks makes you forget it. I guess he forget that payoff to go away meant actually going away. What a fraud!
Dude, are you ok? You sound triggered. Please Educate us on what offers were turned down after he “opted” out. It seems to be a common talking from dudes for years, but I yet to see any evidence of those offers turned down. List em, please.
google.com If you need help
Thanks Dude. That’s the best you can do dude? Try your own link to dispel anything I said dude.