It is likely Colin Kaepernick will never play in the NFL again. Despite Roger Goodell saying this month that the league was “wrong” not to listen to its players during their protests against social injustice and police brutality, the NFL commissioner did not offer an apology to Kaepernick and failed to even mention him by name.
Kaepernick remains out of work as we head towards the new season, though he is both willing and able to play. Two of the false narratives that have hung over Kaepernick’s protest are that he either cannot play at a high enough level anymore or that he doesn’t want to.