Will Colin Kaepernick Play for an NFL Team in 2020?

BY ADAM GREENE

At this point Colin Kaepnernicks’ return to the NFL seems almost a done deal, in spite of the fact he’s not (openly at least) talking to any team. After years of screwing up their “Kaepernick problem” in every conceivable way, the league is on the verge of fixing its dumbest self-inflicted public relations disaster.

Even Donald Trump, after trying again to vainly interject himself into the NFL’s protest policies, seems to have surrendered, dropped the issue like an open umbrella and backed away as if he’s slowly shuffling his way down a slight incline.

So will Kaepernick sign with an NFL team this season? And, if he does, where will he end up?

First off, we need to be clear about something first. Kap isn’t some franchise savior coming back to rescue a team. He’s a back up quarterback and an upgrade, at that position, for pretty much every team in the league. If he’s competing for a starting job, you’re team’s in real trouble.

I write this all the time and it doesn’t cease to be true. There are 32 NFL franchises in the league. There are not 32 NFL franchise quarterbacks on the planet. It could be that Kaepernick, after not playing for three years, has made a titanic leap from the guy that went 3-16 over his final two seasons and was beaten out twice by Blaine Gabbert under two different head coaching regimes, but it seems like a stretch.

Currently the odds of Kap signing with a team before Week 1 are at Yes +200 and No at –300. That looks like easy money to me. The NFL wants this handled. Roger Goodell is likely working the phones to get someone to bring Kaepernick in for a look-see. The league needs it to happen and, as I wrote earlier, when you’re looking at depth charts that include guys like Easton Stick, Brian Lewerke, Jake Dolegala, Ben DiNucci, David Blough, Kurt Benkert and Broc Rutter, Kap should look pretty good.

I swear to God I did not make a single one of those names up.

I think Kaepernick lands on a roster sooner than later, so I’d snap up that +200 before it dips.

Where that is depends on a lot because, as we know, teams hate distractions and adding Kaepernick to a shaky QB situation would not be ideal. The public pressure to bench a struggling young starter for Kap would be massive.

In spite of Los Angeles Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn’s insistence that any team would “would be crazy” to not workout Kaepernick, he’s set barring an injury. Kap offers no advantage over presumptive starter Tyrod Taylor and they just drafted Justin Herbert at No. 6 overall out of Oregon. If Taylor does stumble, and he will because that’s what he does, Herbert is the guy they want to finish out the year. The Chargers are at +450 to sign Kap, but I think you can mark them off the list.

The odds say the Baltimore Ravens, at +225 are the best bet and that makes the most sense. The offense they run isn’t too far divorced from the one Kaepernick had the most success with in San Francisco back in 2012 and 2013. They have an entrenched and beloved starter in Lamar Jackson that no one is going to want to shove to the bench after a bad game and, according to Ray Lewis, the Ravens nearly signed Kaepernick back in 2017 until a critical Tweet from his girlfriend Nessa Diab blew that up.

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti has been very vocal in his support of the current Black Lives Matter protests and recently pledged $1 million for social justice reform. Signing Kaepernick would not only make his team better, it would finally close a gross and stupid chapter of league history.

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