Colin Kaepernick’s collusion lawsuit with the league concluded last week with a settlement and now the quarterback can once again try to play the game he loves. Kaepernick has been out of football since the 2016 season, widely believed to be because he kneeled during the National Anthem. Turns out, Kaepernick saw this coming.
Former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Michael Wilhoite discussed the circumstances of when Kaepernick’s protest began on his podcast. As you may remember, all it took was a photograph in the 2016 preseason to blow this thing into a media wildfire.