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Colin Kaepernick hasn't played a football game since the 2016 season with the San Francisco 49ers, but that hasn't stopped some NFL fans from clamoring for his return to the field.
Reports on Monday stated that Philip Rivers the Indianapolis Colts will do well as the AFC South team's season spirals out of control with all three of its quarterbacks injured. Rivers spent the 2020 season with the Colts before retiring. He recently turned 44 and became a grandfather.
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Eli Harold #58, Colin Kaepernick #7 and Eric Reid #35 of the San Francisco 49ers kneel in protest on the sideline during the anthem before the game against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field on October 16, 2016 in Orchard Park, New York. (Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)
NFL fans on social media suggested the Colts take a look at Kaepernick, despite the quarterback being out of the league for nearly 10 years.
He was still hoping he'd get another chance to play in the NFL, something his girlfriend made clear as recently as August.
“All day, every day,” Nessa Diab said. TMZ Sport on the weekend. “Nothing has changed.”
She added that “of course” he still wants to play.
“It's up to the teams if they allow him,” she said.
Kaepernick, 38, last donned a uniform during the 2016 season, when he sparked protests against racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. In his last NFL game against the Seattle Seahawks, he was 17 of 22 for 215 yards and a touchdown.
Since then, teams haven't shown enough interest in Kaepernick to put him on their roster—even in training camp.
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Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers returns to throw a pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the second quarter of their NFL football game at Levi's Stadium on January 1, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. (Tearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
Kaepernick also created his platform as a social activist through the Know Your Rights camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He compared the NFL draft to a slave auction, called for the abolition of law enforcement and suggested that the NFL has not taken meaningful steps to address social injustice.
Late last year, he admitted to NPR that he missed football and was still training in case the team called him up.
“I will always miss this,” he told the publication at the time while promoting his new children's book, We Are Free, You and Me. “And I continue to train for this.
“At the end of the day, I don’t want to be in a situation where I look back and wonder if I gave it my all to try and achieve this. I will make sure that the reason I am not playing is not because of my work ethic or dedication, but because I am being held back from it.”
Kaepernick told Sky Sports he still believed he could lead the team to the Super Bowl.
“We're still training, still training,” he said. “So let's hope. We just need to convince one of the team owners to open up.
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“This is what I've trained for all my life, so to be able to get back on the field I think will be a big moment for me, a big achievement. I think I could bring a lot to the team and help them win the championship.”
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