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NFL’s Workout Request Puts Colin Kaepernick Between a Rock and a Hard Place

In the nearly three years since Kaepernick last took a snap in the NFL, the QB has made it clear that he wants to play. But the league’s request for a private workout is not as straightforward as it seems.

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Colin Kaepernick cares deeply about social-justice causes and also desperately wants to play in the NFL. But America has had a hard time believing both. If he wanted to play, critics say, he wouldn’t have kneeled.

Kaepernick has evolved in many ways in the last decade, but put a ball in his hands, and he is still the player who set goals to win the Super Bowl and become an all-time great in his rookie season.