Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been out of the NFL since the 2016 regular season finale against the Seattle Seahawks. Not coincidentally, 2016 was the year that he made global headlines for his protests against police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem.
Kaepernick hasn’t even had an official team workout over the past four offseasons, but he twice met with the Seahawks in 2017 and 2018, only for nothing to materialize.
Head coach Pete Carroll met with reporters (virtually, of course) on Thursday and Kaepernick was the subject of several questions, including Carroll denying that Kaepernick potentially kneeling for the anthem was an issue when the 2018 workout was cancelled.