Colin Kaepernick shares message to NFL teams after Michigan spring game: ‘I can help make you a better team’

Previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick reunited with head mentor Jim Harbaugh Saturday at Michigan’s spring sport, wherever he was invited to participate in a throwing audition for NFL scouts, an option he hopes will help him get a “setting up occupation.” 

Kaepernick told WXYZ Detroit right after the halftime showcase that he “completely” even now has what it requires to play in the NFL and hopes Saturday’s exhibiting will create more conversations with teams. 

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“Truly, receiving out listed here for the exhibition was to be in a position to demonstrate that I can do that. It’s one of the thoughts that my agent kept receiving. ‘Well it’s been 5 many years, can he however enjoy?’” Kaepernick said. “So we want to make certain that we come out and clearly show that I can continue to play, however toss it and genuinely just on the lookout for an opportunity for a door to open – to have that be a pathway to be able to get again in there, get a starting up occupation and guide a group to a championship.

“I can help make you a greater team, I can assistance you earn game titles,” Kaepernick extra of his concept to scouts observing. “I know appropriate now the circumstance likely is not going to let me to appear in, stage into a starting off role. I know I am going to be equipped to do the job my way to that though and demonstrate that really speedily.

Free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick arrives for a work out for NFL soccer scouts and media in Riverdale, Ga., Nov. 16, 2019.
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“So to the teams that have concerns, additional than just about anything I would say I would enjoy to come in for a exercise. I’d enjoy to sit down with you and have that dialogue about how I could support you be a greater group.”

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Kaepernick last performed in the league in 2016, the same yr he started off kneeling for the duration of the countrywide anthem in protest of racial injustice. He a short while ago had conversations with the Seattle Seahawks, but head mentor Pete Carroll wouldn’t say for certain previous month if there was a place for him on the staff. 

Colin Kaepernick seems to make a go during a private NFL training at Charles R. Drew High School Nov. 16, 2019, in Riverdale, Ga.
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In accordance to NFL.com, the quarterback ran a variety of throwing drills in the course of a 15-minute session with draft-suitable players at halftime. 

He thanked Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, whom he played for when the Niners went to the Tremendous Bowl in 2013. 

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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh laughs with his commencing quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) just before a match versus the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Dec. 28, 2014. 
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“Coach Harbaugh, he’s often been phenomenal for me – from the time we achieved at the incorporate, my professional day, to him drafting me and deciding upon to start out me – and, from there, our marriage [has] continued to expand and build.

“His romantic relationship with you goes outside of soccer, he loves you as a human being.”