Colin Kaepernick
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… League Will Hear, Exec Says
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TMZSports.com
If Colin Kaepernick desires to place some tape collectively for an NFL return, there’s one league open to giving him that platform — ‘trigger UFL exec Doug Whaley says if the quarterback got here calling, they’d hear.
Whaley — the UFL’s senior vice chairman of participant personnel — spoke with TMZ Sports activities this week … proper forward of the 2025-26 NFL season, which is able to mark almost 9 years since Kaepernick final performed within the league.
The UFL (United Soccer League) has constructed a repute for giving gamers and coaches a platform to develop their strategy to the NFL. So, we requested whether or not Kaepernick — who hasn’t performed since his nationwide anthem demonstration — can be welcome to go an analogous route.
“He hasn’t reached out to us, so it was one of those things where we’ve seen that, and he knows we’re here, so if he really wants it, we would listen,” Whaley stated. “It’d cost us nothing to listen.”
“There are avenues for him, not only with us, but CFL. There are other avenues that if he wanted to put recent game tape out there, he could have a chance to do it.”
Kaepernick was a strong quarterback who received his beginning spot with the 49ers after Alex Smith suffered an damage within the 2012 season. He earned 85 touchdowns (13 on the bottom) because the Niners’ starter … and broke a number of data, together with most dashing yards by a QB in a single recreation (181).
He guided the 49ers to Tremendous Bowl XLVII in New Orleans … however after opting out of his contract forward of the 2017 season, he hasn’t performed within the execs since.
He filed a collusion grievance in opposition to the league … which in the end resulted in a settlement.