Since the end of the 2016 NFL season, Colin Kaepernick has been trying to get signed with a team, but has found road blocks along the way because of his decision to kneel for the National Anthem to protest police brutality and social injustices.
Talks of him finally getting back into the league have gotten louder this year since the murder of George Floyd by a police officer that forced the world to pay attention to what he was protesting back in 2016.
Roger Goodell has even came out to state that the league was wrong for how they handled player protests that year and the years since.
There’s been a renewed call for an NFL team to sign the former 49ers quarterback, but ESPN analyst and former NFL defensive back Domonique Foxworth doesn’t think the NFL deserves him because of their past actions would be forgotten.
“I think [Kaepernick] is vindicated,” Foxworth said on “First Take” on Monday. “He’s vindicated by the public. I think the reason why — and this is probably just me being angry myself — I don’t think the NFL deserves vindication. I think Colin being back in in the league would somewhat absolve the NFL of their guilt, and that’s what bothers me about this idea.
“If he comes back and plays at a high level, that will be great for him, it will raise him to a higher level in our minds, in our memories the further we get away from this. But I don’t necessarily want to see some documentary 10 years from now and the highlight of that documentary is that the NFL came around and they are the champions for bringing Colin back. That bothers me.”
For the 2016 NFL season, Kaepernick played twelve games and ended the season with 2,241 passing yards, sixteen passing touchdowns, four interceptions
