Posted on 12/05/2019 12:14:43 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Washington Redskins were one of the teams that attended Colin Kaepernick’s workout in Georgia last month. Their attendance was hard to explain because signing Kaepernick made no sense for the team.
But now, the Redskins have made a signing based (at least in part) on what they saw during the Kaepernick workout. The Skins signed to their practice squad one of the wide receivers to whom Kaepernick threw passes.
He’s Jordan Veasy, who played his college ball at Berkeley. Veasy was not drafted, but has been a member of the practice squads of four NFL teams. The Redskins will be his fifth.
After the Buffalo Bills released him this Fall, Veasy returned home to Alabama. He was practicing his route running when he heard about Kaepernick’s scheduled workout, which would take place just two hours from where Veasy lives.
Veasy knew Kaepernick from his Berkeley days. The anti-American quarterback had audited a class Veasy took on black representation in popular culture. Veasy reached out to Kaepernick’s representatives and landed a supporting role in the QB’s workout.
Who says attending black studies college courses is a waste of time?
Veasy was impressive enough during the workout that the Cleveland Browns flew him to Ohio for a closer look. They declined to sign him.
Now, the Redskins have. Unfortunately for Veasy, the Skins are loaded with rookie wide receivers — Terry McLaurin, Kelvin Harmon, Stephen Sims, Jr, and Cam Sims. The first three have all displayed the potential to succeed in the NFL. Thus, it’s far from clear that Veasy will advance from the practice squad to the active roster.
But at least his dream is still alive. And in sports, you never know.
As for Kaepernick, he remains unsigned.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Title is a bit misleading but glad to see it lead to a job for someone else....
LOL !
I read the headline and was filled with anger and all sorts of plans to boycott the Redskins.
Then I read the article. I was fooled.
Good one Powerline.
Ha ha, yes. Ingeniously misleading title. Love the ending.
Nice twist on that headline, PowerLine!
Huge misleading head line, in search of clicks!
Hahahaha
Was watching “angry coach press conference” compilations on Youtube last night.
Came across a black coach from what appeared to be the mid-90s, wearing a 49ers hat.
He did a great rant on how he’d rather play with just 10 team-oriented players than include an 11th who was all about himself.
Ironic on so many levels.
He could get a job at the golf course, ball washer.
Great post to test if anyone here reads the article.
They probably figured that anyone who could catch a way off target wobbly poorly thrown ball is an excellent receiver.
I’m happy for Veasy.
He will kneel until they change the name from Redskins.....
Yeah, I was starting to boil. Grrrr.
OK, they got me. Nice job!
Kaepernick Workout Leads to Job With the Indigenous Epidermals.
There fixed it.
Congrats to Veasy for going over there and making something happen.
And Kaepernick finally did some good, even if it was by accident.
Arrogant black idiot who was brought up with white privilege in a white family is now playing for the racist red skins
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