Former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens made an eye-opening statement about why he thinks Colin Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since the 2016 season. The 49ers drafted the Hall of Fame wide receiver in the third round of the 1996 draft.
The two players never played on the same roster. Owens played in San Francisco through the 2003 season, and his last participation at the NFL level was with the Seattle Seahawks during their 2012 training camp, the second season Kaepernick was in the league.
Terrell Owens makes eye-opening statement about Colin Kaepernick
But Owens came to Kaepernick’s defense during an appearance on The Jason Lee Show this week. Owens said he didn’t think Kaepernick’s protest would cost him his job in the league. Owens thinks racism kept Kaepernick from playing in the NFL after the 2016 season.
“I never would have thought it would have created the firestorm that it has,” Owens said. “Never thought this guy would never step back on the football field because of that.
“But it really shed light on really kinda how this would works and really how a lot of the White people see us. And for so many years, we’ve tried to voice that. I mean, for 400-plus something years, we’ve been telling you these are some of the things that have been going on, and it took, like I said, who would’ve thought that it took a knee to bring all of this back to life.”
Kaepernick’s protest cost him a chance to compete on the NFL field. But the former quarterback has been celebrated in other parts of American and corporate culture.
Kaepernick has a partnership with Nike to celebrate his activism. Nationwide high school curriculum will now include his protests. While Kaepernick’s decision to take a knee cost him his athletic ambitions, he transcended the sport.
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