Having seemingly criticized Colin Kaepernick earlier in the week, former world boxing champion George Foreman walked back those comments in an interview with TMZ Sports.
"There's nothing wrong with a guy voicing his opinion," Foreman said. "When you're young you gotta have an opinion. What's the use of being young if you can’t protest?"
Foreman added Kaepernick is "a great football player" and that he "can't see why [Kaepernick] doesn’t have a job."
Speaking on the podcast Offended America (h/t the New York Daily News' Nicole Bitette), Foreman said Kaepernick and Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant "haven't been brought up with people who were patriotic to even point them in the right direction.