Colin Kaepernick has not shot in the NFL since January 1, 2017, but that does not prevent him from holding hope for another shot as a quarter of the league.
Kaepernick’s longtime girlfriend, Nessa Diab revealed that the former San Francisco’s 49ers star, who knelt during the national anthem in 2016 to protest racial injustice in the United States, still trains for an opportunity for the NFL.
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Colin Kaepernick speaks on stage during the annual dinner of awards and auction of the Gordon Parks Foundation on May 21, 2024, in New York. (Noam Galai / Getty images for the Gordon Parks Foundation)
“All day long, every day,” she told Tmz Sports this weekend. “Nothing has changed.”
She added that “of course” that he always wants to play.
“It all depends on the teams if they leave it,” she said.
Kaepernick, 37, adapted for the 49ers during the 2016 season. He had 17 out of 22 for 215 yards and a touch against the Seattle Seahawks. Since then, the teams have not been sufficiently interested in Kaepernick to bring it to their list – even in the training camp.
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Colin Kaepernick is participating in a half-time launch exhibition of the Michigan Spring Football match in Michigan Stadium on April 2, 2022, in Ann Arbor. (Images Jaime Crawford / Getty)
Kaepernick also built its social activist platform via Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He compared the NFL project to an auction of slaves, called for the abolition of the police and suggested that the NFL had not taken significant measures to fight against social injustices.
At the end of last year, he admitted to NPR that he was missing football and that he still trained in case a team had called.
“I will always miss it,” he said at the point of sale in October while promoting his new children’s book “We Are Free You & Me”. “And I continue to train.
“At the end of the day, I do not want to be in a position where I look back and I have to wonder if I have completely given myself to try to continue this. I will make sure that the reason why I do not play is not because of my work ethics or my commitment, but because I was held.”
Kaepernick told PK Press Club that he still believed that he could lead a team in a Super Bowl.
“We always train, we always push,” he said. “So I hope. We just have to make one of these team owners open up.
Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers of San Francisco on the sidelines during the Buccaneers match of Tampa Bay in Levi’s Stadium on October 23, 2016, in Santa Clara, California. (Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images)
“This is something for which I trained all my life, so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, a major achievement for me. I think I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”
