Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still waiting for an NFL team to give him a call now that the league has reopened tryouts, but nothing has progressed so far.
Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk reported that teams contacting him doesn’t seem likely anytime soon.
“More than two months later, it hasn’t. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Kaepernick has drawn no interest.
It’s possible that teams are still talking to the “friends and associates” of Kaepernick while plotting an eventual effort to sign him. It’s also possible that teams never were talking to anyone about Kaepernick, and that the NFL’s various franchises were simply hoping to run out the clock regarding the mainstream viewpoint that Kaepernick should get a shot.”
Rumors of teams reaching out to Kaepernick popped up in the wake of protests over following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May. The 32-year-old is going on his fourth season without an NFL opportunity.
“If so, it worked. No one currently is calling for Kaepernick to get back in the league, and no one is complaining that, for example, Cardale Jones got a workout with the Raiders instead of Kaepernick.”
The 2020 NFL season is scheduled to begin on Thursday, Sept. 10.
