NFL fans clamor for Colin Kaepernick to get another chance as Colts quarterback situation worsens
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Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played a single game since the 2016 season with the San Francisco 49ers, but that didn’t stop some NFL fans from clamoring for his return to the field.
Reports indicated Monday that Philip Rivers was set to coach for the Indianapolis Colts as the AFC South team’s season spirals out of control with all three of its quarterbacks injured. Rivers played the 2020 season with the Colts and then retired. He recently turned 44 and became a grandfather.
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Eli Harold #58, Colin Kaepernick #7 and Eric Reid #35 of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest on the sideline, during the anthem, before the game against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field on October 16, 2016 in Orchard Park, New York. (Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)
NFL fans suggested on social media that the Colts should take a look at Kaepernick even though the quarterback was out of the league for nearly 10 years.
He’s still hoping to get another shot at the NFL, and his girlfriend made that clear in August.
“All day, every day,” Nessa Diab told TMZ Sports over the weekend. “Nothing has changed.”
He added that “of course” he still wants to play.
“It all depends on the teams if they let it,” he said.
Kaepernick, 38, last suited up during the 2016 season, when he sparked a firestorm protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. He was 17 of 22 for 215 yards and a touchdown in his final NFL game against the Seattle Seahawks.
Since then, teams haven’t been interested enough in Kaepernick to add him to their roster, even in training camp.
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Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers drops back to pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter of their NFL football game at Levi’s Stadium on January 1, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
Kaepernick has also developed his social activist platform through Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He has compared the NFL Draft to a slave auction, called for the abolition of law enforcement and suggested that the NFL has failed to take meaningful steps to address social injustices.
Late last year, he admitted to NPR that he misses football and was still training in case a team came calling.
“I’ll always miss him,” she told the outlet at the time while promoting her new children’s book “We Are Free You & Me.” “And I continue training for it.
“At the end of the day, I don’t want to be in a position where I look back and have to wonder if I gave everything I could to achieve this. I’m going to make sure the reason I’m not playing is not because of my work ethic or my commitment, but because I was kept out of it.”
Kaepernick told Sky Sports that he still believed he could lead a team to a Super Bowl.
“We’re still training, still pushing,” he said. “So hopefully we have to get one of these team owners to open up.
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“It’s something I’ve trained for my whole life, so to be able to get back on the field I think would be a big moment, a big accomplishment for me. I think I could add a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor at News Digital.