Colin Kaepernick is still hoping that one day he gets a shot at being in the NFL again.
After six and a half years of not being on field the former 49ers quarterback is revealing that he’s still trying to prove to the league that he has what it takes. During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, the 35-year-old said that he’s still working out five to six days per week and that he’s holding out hope that at least one NFL team will give him chance to return. “I’m going to keep pushing,” Kaepernick said. “I’m going to keep fighting for it because I know I can step on the field and play. Every workout, every opportunity I’ve had to show that, the feedback has always been positive. Everything from, ‘he’s still an elite player,’ to ‘the workout was great; it was better than expected.'”
He also gave out a message to the NFL and told them to put their political thoughts about him to the side and just focus on his skills. “Obviously, there’s something else within this decision,” Kaepernick said of why he can’t even get a workout. “To me, that’s typically what it ends up being, or has been for the last seven years. So, I just want the opportunity to come in, show what I can do on the field. Judge me based upon that, not the political bias that you have.”
Since parting ways with the 49ers, the social justice advocate has gotten exactly zero offers and only one workout, which happened last year with the Las Vegas Raiders.
“When I had my workout with the Raiders last year, even training with guys, there’s a decent amount of people who may have forgotten what I was capable of doing on the field,” Kaepernick said. “So any chance to be able to remind people of what I can do out there, I look forward to and embrace, and I look forward to the day that I get to step on the field and show people what I can do.”
The raiders camp said Kaepernick did do well, but they didn’t make the decision to bring him on the team. Other teams were in the talks of giving him a shot last year as well, but it never fell through.
“I’ve heard a lot of excuses over the years, but most of the time it ends up, ‘Oh, we’re going to see how the guys that we have do,'” Kaepernick said of why he hasn’t gotten any offers. “With the Raiders’ situation last year, that was [Jarrett] Stidham and Nick Mullens, which to me, you just compare résumés and capabilities, on top of the workout and the feedback, it’s like, ‘OK, cool.'”
#Socialites do you think he has what it takes to play in the NFL again?