{"id":4708,"date":"2025-04-22T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:39:03","slug":"colin-kaepernick-still-wants-to-play-in-nfl-up-to-teams-if-theyll-let-him-girlfriend-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/colin-kaepernick-still-wants-to-play-in-nfl-up-to-teams-if-theyll-let-him-girlfriend-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick still wants to play in NFL, 'up to teams if they'll let him,' girlfriend says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Kaepernick<\/a> has not taken a snap in the NFL since Jan. 1, 2017, but it\u2019s not stopping him from holding out hope for another shot as a quarterback in the league.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick\u2019s longtime girlfriend Nessa Diab revealed the former San Francisco 49ers<\/a> star, who knelt during the national anthem in 2016 in protest of racial injustice in the U.S., is still training for an NFL opportunity.<\/p>\n

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“All day, every day,” she told TMZ Sports<\/a> over the weekend. “Nothing\u2019s changed.”<\/p>\n

She added that “of course” he still wants to play.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s all up to the teams if they\u2019ll let him,” she said.<\/p>\n

Kaepernick, 37, last suited up for the 49ers during the 2016 season. He was 17-of-22 for 215 yards and a touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks. Since then, teams have not been interested in Kaepernick enough to bring him onto their roster \u2013 even in training camp.<\/p>\n

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Kaepernick has also built up his social activist platform through Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He\u00a0has compared the NFL Draft<\/a>\u00a0to a slave auction, called for the abolition of law enforcement and suggested the NFL has not taken meaningful steps to address social injustices.<\/p>\n

Late last year, he admitted to NPR that he misses football and was still training in case a team called.<\/p>\n

“I will forever miss it,” he told the outlet in October while promoting his new children\u2019s book “We Are Free You & Me.” “And I continue to train for it.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, I don’t want to be in a position where I look back and have to question whether or not I gave it my all to try to pursue that. I will make sure that the reason I’m not playing is not because of my work ethic or commitment, but because I was held out of it.”<\/p>\n

Kaepernick\u00a0told Sky Sports<\/a>\u00a0he still believed he could lead a team to a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

“We’re still training, still pushing,” he said. “So hopefully. We’ve just got to get one of these team owners to open up.<\/p>\n

“It’s something I’ve trained my whole life for, so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, a major accomplishment for me. I think I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.”<\/p>\n

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