Posted on 03/02/2017 10:16:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began the center of a national debate when he refused to stand for the National Anthem last season, reportedly will end his protest for the upcoming season.
Citing sources close to the soon-to-be free agent, ESPN Senior Writer Adam Schefter reported on Kaepernick’s decision Thursday.
He said the sources told ESPN that Kaepernick was ending his protest so as to not detract from the positive change that he believes he has has already created.
While few other NFL players joined in the protest it did spread to colleges and high schools around the country.
ESPN also reported Kaepernick’s representation, Select Sports Group, sent a letter to the league informing them that the veteran quarterback will opt out of his contract with the 49ers and become a free agent.
The 29-year-old would have earned over $14 million dollars had he elected to remain with San Francisco in 2017. Kaepernick was initially signed through 2020, but the decision to opt out became possible after the two sides reworked his original contract in October. The move also leaves the 49ers without a quarterback on their roster.
Kaepernick reclaimed the starting quarterback job shortly after agreeing to the new contract. He started the final eleven games, threw 16 touchdowns to just four interceptions, and was named the team’s recipient of the annual Len Eshmont award, which goes to the player who “best exemplifies the inspirational and courageous play of Len Eshmont, an original member of the 1946 49ers team.”
A return to the 49ers appears unlikely, but new general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan did meet with Kaepernick last week at the team’s facility in Santa Clara. “We had a great discussion. Colin left excited, we left excited and I think as Kyle and I really believe, the evaluation is still very much fluid,” Lynch said during an interview on KNBR radio.
Kaepernick’s protest drew both praise and the ire of fans.
He also pledged through his foundation to donate $1 million to community groups seeking social justice within their hometowns. Kaepernick has given away $100,000 donations each month for the last 10 months.
On Thursday, his decision end his protest triggered an avalanche of social media comments.
What specifically would those changes be that HE has created?
To absolute eternal hell for that bastard. And to hell with the NFL.
I did not watch a single NFL game this past season.
I find that I didn’t miss it at all.
I now would rather watch regular TV shows, so I will probably never watch NFL again.
Just as the POS becomes a free agent, huh?
Go ahead and make your insincere stands, loser. The BOYCOTT will continue the length of your career. Which we all hope is very short.
LOL!....................
“He said the sources told ESPN that Kaepernick was ending his protest so as to not detract from the positive change that he believes he has has already created.”
In his world, ‘positive change’ is pissing off the rest of America and making your team into a laughing stock.
‘Free Agent.’ Good Luck with that, you spoiled, CLUELESS D-bag.
Jets should offer him league minimum.
That would be the ultimate insult as well as getting the ball rolling on what his new contract should be.
I think he should strap a suicide bombers vest to his chest, run to mid field of the Super Bowl and self detonate.
It would be great for ratings
He’d “make a statement”
We’d be rid of him
Win win
Kaepernack is only doing this because he’s going to be a free agenbt. He knows no team will touch him if he continues his BS.
I hope nobody hires him. What a worthless idiot. Go work for black lives matter.
What total b.s., Kaeperdick didn’t produce any “positive change” at all.... he’s just looking at his free agency and desperate to try to land a good deal when no team wants him. Which means he is a total fraud and hypocrite, since his “principled stand” vanishes as soon as his career needs take precedence.
It would not surprise some of us, if he was in bed with the Former Niner’s owners to take the heat off the owners re what a really poor team the owners had last year.
Due to the owners not really being interested in paying for the best players.
A poor team which apparently had positive financial benefits to the team re the payments they owed the city of Santa Clara for Levi Stadium.
So K does his BLM stunt as the Former 9ers team played up to its miserable abilities. Then, he becomes the scapegoat instead the rich elite owners.
This is not to take any pressure off K, a pos BLMer.
Again, the old Latin term Cui Bono or who benefits needs to be asked.
Cui Bono | Definition of Cui Bono by Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cui%20bono
Definition of cui bono. 1 : a principle that probable responsibility for an act or event lies with one having something to gain. 2 : usefulness or utility as a principle in estimating the value of an act or policy.
Cupcake Kaepernick, just another leftist whore.
YAWN.
It turns out that he was ashamed of his country while Barack Obama was in office, but now feels so much more positive and upbeat with Donald Trump in the White House.
Colin Kaepernick ... doing his part to help Make America Great Again.
:-P
What you said. He’s raising his free-agency acceptability to more teams, hoping to have more choices and higher pay.
Yes, it’s IMPOSSIBLE not to see it that way. Nobody wants to hire a troublemaker.
More like he realizes that no team wants a toxic player more known for his political activism than his football skill, especially one with his dismal record.
At home. I know there’s a lack of QBs in the league but I don’t see anybody picking him up, he’s just not good.
What positive changes did he bring about by this? Didn’t NFL lose millions of viewers?
Exactly! This is him saying PLEASE PLEASE HIRE ME lol
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