You may be correct, however, as a 6 year veteran, the collective barging agreement would require a salary of at least $800,000. There are at least a dozen one or two year veterans with enough upside potential they were retained by teams on their practice squads. They are available to be picked up by any team for half Kaepernick's cost and none of his baggage. Under the salary cap, $400,000 is often the difference in keeping a good player.
Well, hell, my theory just went out the window. I didn’t know anything about that bargaining agreement and the guaranteed money. Learn something all the time.
I was thinking they’d offer him $500k, guaranteed, and then toss in some incentives that could up the contract to something over $1million, or so, for the year, and then have it renewable, or something like that.
$800k out of the box for him. I doubt it. He would have to be throwing absolute lasers during any type of tryout w/ any team. Doubt that’ll happen. At the end of the day, he isn’t that good.