Colin Kaepernick ‘still working’ in hopes of landing NFL job

Colin Kaepernick is staying able to play quarterback simply in case a workforce provides him a name this NFL free company.

The previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback posted a video of himself Thursday doing drills.

“Nonetheless working,” he tweeted.

A supply instructed ESPN the quarterback who hasn’t performed a snap of NFL soccer stays “in the most effective form of his life” and stays “able to play.”

The NFL quarterback market has shaken up not too long ago. Aaron Rodgers mentioned he was going to return to the Inexperienced Bay Packers subsequent season. Studies say Russell Wilson is about to be traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Denver Broncos, and Carson Wentz is to be traded from the Indianapolis Colts to the Washington Commanders.

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The Seahawks look like a possible touchdown spot for Kaepernick given the franchise’s flirtation with the quarterback previously.

Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a exercise for NFL soccer scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga., on Nov. 16, 2019.
(AP Photograph/Todd Kirkland, File)

The previous quarterback began a firestorm within the NFL through the 2016 season when he protested through the nationwide anthem. The demonstration sparked a wave in recent times with gamers from every kind of sports activities utilizing kneeling as a type of protest in opposition to social injustice and racial discrimination.

Kaepernick had a exercise for a handful of groups in 2019 however was by no means capable of latch onto a workforce.

He instructed Ebony in an October interview he was staying ready simply in case a workforce got here calling.

“Completely. I’m nonetheless up at 5 a.m. coaching 5, six days every week ensuring I’m ready to take a workforce to a Tremendous Bowl once more,” he mentioned. “That’s not one thing I’ll ever let go of, whatever the actions of 32 groups and their companions to disclaim me employment. The identical means I used to be persistent in highschool is identical means I’m gonna be persistent right here.

“And also you’re gonna need to proceed to disclaim me and accomplish that in a public means. And also you’re gonna expose your self by that, but it surely gained’t be as a result of I’m not prepared or not ready.”

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His Netflix particular, which aired within the fall, additionally induced controversy. One episode likened the NFL course of to slavery.

Free agent Colin Kaepernick participates in a exercise for NFL soccer scouts and media Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 in Riverdale, Ga. (AP Photograph/Todd Kirkland)

“What they don’t need you to grasp is what’s being established is an influence dynamic,” Kaepernick says whereas strolling by way of a staged NFL apply area. “Earlier than they put you on the sector, groups poke, prod, and look at you trying to find any defect that may have an effect on your efficiency.”

“No boundary respect,” Kaepernick continued. “No dignity left intact.”

A line of actors enjoying NFL prospects, all of them Black, then stroll by Kaepernick earlier than morphing into slaves at an public sale with shackles on whereas White slave house owners bid on them.

At one level, the house owners begin whipping the gamers as Kaepernick makes an attempt to make the comparability between the abuse slaves suffered in the US and the NFL mix course of that determines which gamers are drafted into the league.

Fox Information’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.