2016 was the final year that Colin Kaepernick was on an NFL football field playing for a team. The reason why was hardly to do with his performance on the field.
Joe Lockhart — who is the NFL’s former vice president of communications — confirmed that much when he stated that Kaepernick’s career ended because he was ‘bad for business’ in the eyes of the NFL.
In Lockhart’s own words from a column:
“No teams wanted to sign a player — even one as talented as Kaepernick — whom they saw as controversial, and, therefore, bad for business.”
Lockhart, who is a CNN political analyst now, gave a behind-the-scenes look at what led to Kaepernick being blackballed by the NFL:
“[F]or many owners it always came back to the same thing,” Lockhart wrote. “Signing Kaepernick, they thought, was bad for business. An executive from one team that considered signing Kaepernick told me the team projected losing 20% of their season ticket holders if they did. That was a business risk no team was willing to take, whether the owner was a Trump supporter or a bleeding-heart liberal (yes, those do exist). As bad of an image problem it presented for the league and the game, no owner was willing to put the business at risk over this issue.”
Colin Kaepernick was once considered by some to be the best dual-threat quarterback in the NFL, even leading the 49ers to the Super Bowl in his first season as the starter.
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Although his starting days may have been over after 2016, there was no doubt he was still good enough to be a backup QB on any team.
