Colin Kaepernick will not give up, and he is not going away. On Tuesday, his friend and rap superstar J. Cole posted to social media a letter that the embattled QB wrote to New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas in which Kaepernick asked the quarterback-needy franchise to sign him to its practice squad.
Cole wrote that he had Kaepernick’s permission to make the letter public.
Kaepernick asked Douglas for the opportunity, offering his thoughts on what the Jets could gain with the move. The letter also mentions four men who would “vouch for my character, work ethic and ability”: Kaepernick’s first NFL head coach, Jim Harbaugh; another of his coaches with the San Francisco 49ers, Chip Kelly; Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and Raiders owner Mark Davis.
“I would be honored and extremely grateful for the opportunity to come in and lead the practice squad,” Kaepernick wrote. “I would do this with the sole mission of getting your defense ready each week.”
Kaepernick even noted that the Jets’ games in Weeks 4-6 were against mobile quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, and Jalen Hurts, and his presence would give New York’s defense “a truer read” on how to play that type of QB.
According to one NFL insider, Kaepernick needs to read the writing on the wall when it comes to his career.
“It’s over. It’s been over. And nothing that happened on Tuesday will keep it from being over,” said NBC Sports’ Mike Florio in reaction to Kaepernick’s letter to the New York Jets.
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If The Jets wanted to take Kaepernick up on his offer, it would cost peanuts as the maximum a veteran on the practice squad can earn is $20,600 a week. Him possibly being a distraction with more media presence means nothing to a team that is not expected to win very much with Zach Wilson as their quarterback.
Largely it was a long shot because the last time Kaepernick played in the league was the 2016 season, a year before recent Jets practice squad QB signee Trevor Siemian won his last game as a starter.
At this point, it looks like another season will go by without Kaepernick being on a team.
