Good lord, some of you are softer than baby shit
He got cut because the niners liked the guy behind him better due to Kaep’s poor performance and no team wanted him after that. Kaep isn’t anything special, he’s just another guy who flamed out. This happens every single season in the NFL no matter the skin color.
The 2017 49ers didn't "like" Brian Hoyer or Blaine Gabbert more than Kaepernick...
They didn't win a game (0-8) after he opted out until they got Garoppolo mid-season
Just another NFL team that chose to tank when it fired its GM (Baalke replaced by Lynch) and hired a new coach (Shanahan replacing Chip Kelly). The front office & coaching staff was a mess after Harbaugh lost his power struggle with Baalke & Jed York.
That explains why the 49ers wanted to cut him...doesn't explain why the rest of the NFL blacklisted him
"...and no team wanted him after that."
The Seattle Seahawks were interested on more than 1 occasion
Colin Kaepernick could be potential quarterback
Could the Seahawks take a gamble and bring in
Colin Kaepernick?
“There’s something else the Seahawks could do, if they trade Wilson,” Florio said. “They could finally give Colin Kaepernick (who is only one year older than Wilson) a full and fair workout, undeterred by the possibility that Kaepernick would divide the locker room on the question of whether he or Wilson should play. (In 2017, given the lingering presence of veterans who resented Wilson, that was a very real possibility.)”
It's certainly an intriguing idea considering the Seahawks’ reported interest in the former 49ers quarterback in 2017. Kaepernick became a free agent in March 2017 after opting out with the 49ers, his only visit with a team came in May, and it was with the Seahawks.
Ultimately, the Seahawks chose not to sign Kaepernick because the two parties were too far apart on money. Coach Pete Carroll described the former 49ers star as an NFL starting-caliber player.
"He's a starter in this league," he said. "We have a starter, but he is a starter in this league, and I can't imagine somebody won't give him a chance to play.
The Seahawks
were linked to Kaepernick again in 2018 after releasing Trevone Boykin following his arrest on a domestic violence charge.
Last year, Carroll said he wishes the team could have found a way to sign him back in 2017 or 2018.
“I regret that that didn’t happen in some fashion,’’ Carroll said of not signing Kaepernick. “I wish we would have contributed to it because he deserved to play...
ex-NFL exec admits what we knew all along: Protests ended Colin Kaepernick’s career
A kneeling Kaepernick was bounced from the NFL in 2017 because he was bad for business.
That’s one of the massive takeaways from the column written by CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart, who was the
NFL’s vice president of communications when Kaepernick ignited a social justice movement that rippled through teams and shook the league’s ownership ranks.
In Lockhart’s own words from a column from early Saturday morning: “No teams wanted to sign a player — even one as talented as Kaepernick — whom they saw as controversial, and, therefore, bad for business.”
That line bears repeating once, twice or a thousand times because it forever puts a spate of intellectually dishonest and long-running canards to bed. So let’s stop and shout this for a moment, so everyone in the back can hear it:
Colin Kaepernick was not bounced by NFL team owners because of his skill. He was not bounced because of salary demands. And he was not bounced because he wanted a starting job. No, he was rejected by NFL team owners because he became a financial liability, kneeling for social justice and igniting a telling firestorm with President Donald Trump.
We can finally all be honest about that now.
Colin Kaepernick lost his job forever because he became a wildly uncomfortable inflection point between franchise owners and players. He lost his job because he wouldn’t turn down the volume on his anger or rhetoric. And he lost his job because a segment of fans were furious about all of it, refused to listen to any of it, and never bothered to understand where it might be coming from.
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