Colin Kaepernick spent nearly five hours with the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday, working through drills and meeting with coaches and team executives.
When it was all over, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport stated Kaepernick’s workout with the Raiders went well.
“On Colin Kaepernick’s workout with the Raiders: Sounds like it went well and he impressed,” Rapoport announced on Twitter. “The door is open.”
During this Friday’s edition of Get Up, former New York Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum applauded the Raiders for bringing in Kaepernick for a workout, but he also added that the team should’ve taken it a bit further and signed him right away.
“I would’ve signed him, not just worked him out,” Tannenbaum said. “I would’ve signed him. It tells me they have concerns about Nick Mullens and Jarrett Stidham as a backup. By signing him now, it’d give him about six weeks to get to know the playbook and get back into the NFL routine so when they hit training camp he’s ready to go.”
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As it stands, the Raiders are set at starting quarterback with Derek Carr, who signed a three-year $121.5 million extension this offseason. The team also acquired Jarrett Stidham from the New England Patriots. The Raiders also signed veteran backup Nick Mullens to a one-year deal.
Head coach Josh McDaniels declined to go into specifics about the meeting with Kaepernick.
“We will only talk about the people that are on our team,” McDaniels said Thursday. “[General manager Dave Ziegler] and his staff have worked out tons of guys this spring. We really don’t make comments about the evaluations that we made or what they looked like or what they didn’t look like — strengths and weaknesses, those kinds of things. They are obviously kind of private for us as we look at things to try to make decisions to make the team better. If players are added to the team, then obviously we’ll talk about them at that point.”
The 34-year-old has more experience in the NFL than Mullens and Stidham, but he has not played a down of professional football since the 2016 season.
