Colin Kaepernick says he’s willing to come back to the NFL as a backup quarterback

Cost-free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick says he has “unfinished business” in the NFL and is organized to arrive again to the league as a backup quarterback if he has to. The activist explained in an interview on the “I AM ATHLETE” podcast released Monday that he just requirements “the prospect to wander through the door.” 

“I know I have to uncover my way back in,” he said. “Yeah, if I have to appear in as a backup, that is fantastic. But that’s not exactly where I’m staying. And when I prove that I’m a starter, I want to be able to step on the subject as this sort of.”  

Kaepernick has not been able to land a job with an NFL staff due to the fact he started to just take a knee to protest law enforcement brutality and racial injustice all through the nationwide anthem as a member of the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. He final played for the 49ers in 2017 and opted out of the deal, but was not signed any where else. He labored out with the Seattle Seahawks later that calendar year, however, head mentor Peter Carroll now experienced a starter with then-staff quarterback Russell Wilson, who was traded to the Denver Broncos this off-time.  

“No groups introduced me for a exercise routine” he explained. “No teams brought me in for an opportunity. The a single assembly with Seattle in 2017. Out of that, Pete Carroll reported, ‘He’s our starter, we have a starter.’ Things moved on from there. But they never have a starter appropriate now.” 

The 34-yr-old claimed he is determined to come back again to the league to earn a Super Bowl, which he attained in 2013 with the 49ers, but missing against the Baltimore Ravens.  

“You experienced those people goals from when you had been a child. ‘I’m [gonna] be an NFL participant and I am heading to earn a Tremendous Bowl.’ And for me, I have unfinished business enterprise on that front. I have been to the Tremendous Bowl. We had been a single play absent. Very well, I will need to end that.” 

He dismissed considerations he would be a distraction, and centered on his earlier jersey sales and Nike’s $6 billion evaluation following they signed him, he stressed the company finish of a team signing him “will make sense.” He also introduced up the NFL’s “Finish Racism” messages in end zones and “Black Lives Subject” currently being worn on players’ helmets, which tumble in line with his activism.   

“Anything I’ve stated ought to be in alignment with what you are expressing publicly,” he stated, referring to the NFL. 

In a information to common supervisors around the league, he reported to let him “arrive in and permit me compete.” 

“The NFL is supposed to be a meritocracy … If I am not superior plenty of, get rid of me. But enable me occur in and present you,” he explained. 

When instruction for an NFL comeback, Kaepernick has been maintaining occupied. He wrote a children’s book, “I Colour Myself Various” that was posted this month, and his large university several years are the subject of a Netflix collection termed “Colin in Black & White,” which was produced previous yr. He also launched an initiative before this year by way of his Know Your Legal rights Camp that will offer you free of charge, secondary autopsies to family members members of any person whose death is “police-relevant.”