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Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played down football since the 2016 season with the San Francisco 49ers, but that hasn’t stopped some NFL fans from clamoring for his return to the field.
Reports indicated Monday that Philip Rivers was going to practice for the Indianapolis Colts as the AFC South team’s season spiraled out of control and three of its quarterbacks were injured. Rivers played the 2020 season with the Colts and later 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 sidelines during the national 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 despite the quarterback being out of the league for nearly 10 years.
He still held out hope of getting another shot in the NFL and his girlfriend made that clear as recently as August.
“All day, every day,” Nessa Diab told TMZ Sports over the weekend. “Nothing has changed.”
She added that “of course” he still wants to play.
“It’s up to the teams whether they let it happen,” she said.
Kaepernick, 38, last wore his costume during the 2016 season when he created a firestorm to protest racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. He finished 17 of 22 for 215 yards and a touchdown in his final NFL game against the Seattle Seahawks.
Since then, teams haven’t shown enough interest in Kaepernick to put him on 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 also built his social activist platform through the Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He compared the NFL draft to a slave auction, called for the abolition of law enforcement and suggested the NFL had failed to take meaningful action to address social injustices.
Late last year, he admitted to NPR that he missed football and was always training in case a team came calling.
“I will miss it forever,” he told the outlet at the time while promoting his new children’s book “We Are Free You & Me.” “And I continue to train for it.
“Ultimately, I don’t want to find myself in a position where I look back and have to wonder whether or not I gave it my all to try to pursue this goal. I’ll make sure the reason I’m not playing is not because of my work ethic or commitment, but because I was kept out of the game.”
Kaepernick told PK Press Club he still believes he can lead a team to a Super Bowl.
“We keep training and pushing,” he said. “So I hope so. We just have to convince 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 it would be a major moment, a major accomplishment for me. I think I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”
