Colin Kaepernick still wants to come back to the NFL as a player, but it seems that the only way for him to come back would be as a coach. The 36 year old former quarterback still thinks he can play but his former coach Jim Harbaugh, has very different ideas for his return to the league. If Colin was opened to that change, he may be back on the sidelines very soon!
Colin Kaepernick Has An Incredible New Job Offer
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While a coaching job may be waiting for him, Kaepernick still wants to play. He will have to give up on that ‘delusion’ according to insider Mike Florio as that is just never going to happen. As documented on gridiron heroics previously.
He was candid in an recent interview with Sky Sports where he shared that he wants to be an NFL quarterback again, and he thinks he’s till good enough to win a Super Bowl:
“We’re still training, still pushing,” Kaepernick said. “So hopefully. We’ve just got to get one of these team owners to open up.”
“We’ve just got to get one of these team owners to open up,” Kaepernick said. “It’s something I’ve trained my whole life for, so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, a major accomplishment for me. I think I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”
Mike Florio, who has been a huge supported of Kaepernick since he was affectively kicked out of the league, but even he thinks that this is just insanity, and that would never happen at this point.
“I firmly believe the NFL colluded against him in 2017, with a business decision that catered to the 30 percent of the fan base that hates him and ignoring the 30 percent of the fan base that loves him. (The league ultimately settled his collusion grievance),” Florio wrote. “I also firmly believe that it’s over for Kaepernick, and that it has been.
“He’ll be 37 in November. He hasn’t played since January 1, 2017. At this point, it’s just not happening.”
If he listens to Florio’s advise, there is another way for Colin to get back to an NFL sideline as a coach.
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Jim Harbaugh Wants To Hire Colin Kaepernick This Season
Jim Harbaugh recently had an interview with USA TODAY’s Jarrett Bell, and he broke the major news that he, in fact, spoke with Kaepernick, and offered him a job on his coaching staff for the Los Angeles Chargers!
He revealed that he had offered him the job right when he himself took his new job with the Chargers:
“If that was ever the path he was to take, I think that would be tremendous,” Harbaugh told Bell. “He’d be a tremendous coach, if that’s the path he chose.”
At the moment, it does not look like Kaepernick is interested, as maybe he is that delusional that he thinks he can still get back to the league. His former coach said that they have not spoken about it since.
“Yeah, we talked a little bit about it,” Harbaugh said. “He’s considering it. He was out of the country. He said he was going to get back to me. We haven’t reconnected since then. That was early, early in the year.”
Harbaugh referred to Kaepernick in that interview as “one of my favorite players I’ve ever coached” and a “hero.” While it appears that Kaepernick will not play again, it would be quite the story if he came back as a coach!
NFL Fans React To Colin Kaepernick Job Offer
Initial fan reactions have not been kind to Kaepernick, as Chargers fans would rather not have all that press for a minor coach on the staff. However, it will be none of their decisions to make:
“No thank you,” a Chargers fan said.
“As a Chargers Fan, if this happens… I’M DONE with the NFL,” another Chargers fan wrote.
“Interesting. Idk why he won’t sign him as QB tho. Bc if the chargers are cool with him being an assistant that means they’re cool with him being in the org,” a fan tweeted. “Unless the owner has some weird hangup strictly with him being a qb. Harbs should just sign him as QB.”
While Kaepernick has not committed at all, he is definitely considering it. This would be the most wild small hire at coaching staff in the history of the league, and it would make sense why Chargers fans would not want all of that extra noise to start the Harbaugh era.
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