Colin Kaepernick is long removed from his last snap, but he’s not giving up hope on returning to the NFL. The former 49ers quarterback tells Jarrett Bell of USA Today that he’ll be ready to go if he gets a call. 
“My desire to play football is still there,” Kaepernick said. “I still train five days a week. I’m ready to go, I’m ready for a phone call, tryout, workout at any point in time. I’m still waiting on the owners and their partners to stop running from this situation. So I hope I get a call this offseason. I’ll be looking forward to it.”
At this time, it doesn’t seem likely that Kaepernick will get that opportunity. Late last year, the NFL organized an open workout for the QB, a tryout that came without much in the way of prior notice for anyone, including Kaepernick. Instead of going through with the one-man combine at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick pivoted at the last moment and staged a workout of his own elsewhere in Georgia. Afterwards, Kaepernick’s camp sent footage of the workout to all 32 teams. Still, his agent admitted that the odds of his client signing an NFL deal were slim.
In the midst of all of this, there have been murmurs of Kaepernick joining up with Vince McMahon’s reboot of the XFL, which kicked off its 2020 season just after the Super Bowl. There’s no movement on that front, either, and it doesn’t sound like things will change anytime soon. Recently, XFL commish Oliver Luck reiterated that Kaepernick’s salary demands were too high, and also said that the league would not be willing to bend on its policy on standing for the national anthem.
Kaepernick, 33 in November, hasn’t seen live action since January 1, 2017. Since then, the Seahawks have been the only team to bring him in for a workout.
From 2011-2016, he went 28-30 in his starts for San Francisco. Following the 2012 season, he took the 49ers to the Super Bowl. In the 2013 season, he was under center as they reached the NFC championship game.
Later this year, Kaepernick will release a memoir via his newly formed publishing company and a partnership with Audible.
Go. Away. Please
This… exactly this.
Yes please go away
*peter griffin voice* who the hell cares?
kap, put what you want in one hand and I’ll s**t in the other and let’s see which one fill up first!!!! you will never be seen in the NFL ever again.
Good luck with that one. AB has a better chance
is it still for big bucks too?
I can tell by his actions he doesn’t actually want a job in the NFL.
This just in. I want to play in the NFL too!!!!
This also just in, my grandmother wants to fly jets!
He could of played in the XFL but he wanted too much money … more than all of the other players on a team combined
Sorry but he fuels the fire by saying he wants to
Play but makes no concessions. He just wants to keep saying he’s not getting a chance so it help his other endeavors.
that is accurate based on his actions
He could of played in the XFL but he wanted too much money … more than all of the other players on a team combined.
Wow, lots of haters! If the guy can still ball, he should be given a shot. Lots of disreputable characters playing professional sports, and this guy, political views aside, seems like a decent human being. Good god, he’s trying to play football, not run for office!
Seems more like an arrogant a $ $ hat than a decent human being.
He doesn’t want to comply with anything. Tryouts? And his salary demands are high for a no starter
agreed but when you want a job from someone you have to have a mutual agreement for the work and compensation.
the ravens almost signed him and his girlfriend the same day tweeted a picture of the owner comparing him to slave owners.
he then was offered a workout for the NFL and he refused to sign a waiver if he got injured which is standard.
he then has salary demands that are preventing other football organizations from being able to offer him a contract.
in what world would these types of actions get you a job in any field?
imagine a lawyer who publicly criticizes a law firm demands partnership money and refuses to follow any HR procedures. would you say hey that law firm should just give him a job?
I could care less about the flag thing but this is not the actions of a man who wants a job.
His girlfriend is a jerk. Is she still with him? She almost single handedly ended Kap’s NFL career.
Well said
He can’t ball. Anyone who saw his last 2 years in SF knows this
3-18 I believe
Holds the record for most yards rushing by a QB in a single game (181) which he accomplished in the playoffs in 2013. The man has talent.
7 years is a long time in any pro sport, let alone the NFL!
That’s a long time between having one good year and being benched for Blaine FN Gabbert 3 years ago!
You may wanna get out more. The guy scheduled a workout , move the site without much notice and then wondered why people didn’t show up. Every time he gets his name out there it gives him just enough attention to make people feel sorry for him.
No he doesn’t.
Go away! You’re
Team cut your before all the nonsense started. You’re not good and now you’re a distraction.
don’t take a knee and you can come back
Yea i wonder if he can just keep on with the league doesn’t want him cause he’s black narrative
When a black qb was picked #1
Won Rookie of year
Another one won MVP
And another one won the Super Bowl
and he’s not black. he’s biracial. which means he’s as much white as he is black. so as far as I’m concerned, the race card don’t fly in this situation.
Don’t we all?
He had his shot months ago and then played some Nike commercial game with the NFL
Someone out there continues to pay this guy to keep his BS in the mainstream.
He just needs attentionZ. He doesn’t want to play.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN KAP … you are too big of a PR Headache for Owners who love their Country and their Fan Bases; you are a back-up QB at best who had ONE good year in the NFL; you want too much money; everytime the NFL bends over for you … you make a big scene as you just did for this special try-out.
Sure he does, and I want In-N-Out for lunch.
Who has the better chance of getting what they want?
Great….. now I have to go to In-N-Out once they open or it’ll be on my mind all day
You’re welcome. 🙂
We don’t have an in and out so who has it worse?
OH and I want to play in the NFL. I am almost 60 and disabled because of back surgeries and bad back. Kap we are 50/50 on who gets on first.
who cares!
He trains to be a martyr 5 days a week
He is old, has a bad attitude, and generally sucks. Not gonna happen.
Nailed It vin
Yeah, and I want to win the Power Ball, but we don’t always get what we want.
He needs to stop acting like a douche then.
Ok Mr. 1-10 three years ago. Im sure teams are itching to sign you.
Guess he shouldn’t have acted like an entitled child at his workout then.
Doesn’t look that way
I want to win the power ball this week bit chances are it’s not happening
I still wanna play in the NFL too. But I’m 46, overweight and never played above 7th grade….soooooo
Even looking beyond the PR nightmare that signing him would cause anybody at this point, he’s currently 32 and hasn’t taken a snap in over three years. I honestly think he’s smart enough to realize that he’s not suiting up for an NFL team ever again, but it doesn’t hurt to make the occasional comment to keep your name in the news…
Keeps all your other sources of income fluid. He still probably makes more money than most NFL players, and a quick google search listed his net worth at $20 million.
The redskins plucked Josh Johnson off the street in 2018. 32 years old and out of the league since 2014
2014 – 2014 : San Francisco 49ers
2015 – 2015 : Cincinnati Bengals
2015 – 2015 : New York Jets
2015 – 2015 : Indianapolis Colts
2015 – 2015 : Buffalo Bills
2016 – 2016 : Baltimore Ravens
2016 – 2016 : New York Giants
2017 – 2017 : Houston Texans
2018 – 2018 : Oakland Raiders
2018 – 2018 : Washington Redskins
He might’ve been out of the league but he wasn’t out of the NFL
And even if he was out of the NFL, picking one human who beat the odds (in a very unusual situation) is hardly an argument that will 99.6641782% of the time be true.
Who is he anyway??
Kaepernick is taking a stand against oppression, while Nike pays minimal wages to people making its products, while he and other athletes make millions in endorsements.
Ha! never thought of that.
You own anything by Nike?
Got a better idea! go pound sand!
I still wanna be an astronaut/pirate.
Stop already
Clown given a NFL forced tryout and he imploded the entire thing for the victim card to write a book
I would appoint him the NFL ambassador to London if that would get him to stop talking about a comeback as a player.
Why would you even write this article when he’s proven he doesn’t wanna play. If he did wanna play he’d be in the XFL with all the other guys that actually wanna play in the NFL
If you wanted play so bad you should hace agreed to their terms for the workout and stop telling them to quit running. They would like you to stop running your mouth and take a pay cut.
You couldn’t play the last year you were in the game… Go away!!