NFL fans clamor for Colin Kaepernick to get another chance as Colts' quarterback situation spirals

Colin Kaepernick has not played a down of shot since the 2016 play with the San Francisco 49ers, but it didn’t halt immoderate NFL fans from clamoring for his instrumentality to the gridiron.

Reports indicated Monday that Philip Rivers was going to enactment retired for the Indianapolis Colts arsenic the AFC South team’s play spirals retired of power with each 3 of their quarterbacks hurt. Rivers played the 2020 play with the Colts and retired aft that. He precocious turned 44 and became a grandfather.

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Eli Harold #58, Colin Kaepernick #7 and Eric Reid #35 of the San Francisco 49ers kneel successful protestation connected the sideline, during the anthem,  prior to the crippled against the Buffalo Bills astatine New Era Field connected Oct. 16, 2016 successful Orchard Park, New York.  (Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)

NFL fans suggested connected societal media that the Colts should springiness Kaepernick a look contempt the backmost being retired of the league for astir 10 years.

He has inactive held retired anticipation that helium would get different NFL changeable and his woman made wide it arsenic precocious arsenic August.

"All day, each day," Nessa Diab told TMZ Sports over the weekend. "Nothing’s changed."

She added that "of course" helium inactive wants to play.

"It’s each up to the teams if they’ll fto him," she said.

Kaepernick, 38, past suited up for the during the 2016 play erstwhile helium created a firestorm protesting radical injustice by kneeling during the nationalist anthem. He was 17-of-22 for 215 yards and a touchdown successful his past NFL crippled against the Seattle Seahawks.

Since then, teams person not been funny successful Kaepernick capable to bring him onto their roster – adjacent successful grooming camp.

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Colin Kaepernick #7 of the San Francisco 49ers drops backmost to walk against the Seattle Seahawks during the 2nd 4th of their NFL shot crippled astatine Levi's Stadium connected Jan. 1, 2017 successful Santa Clara, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

Kaepernick has besides built up his societal activistic level done Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He has compared the NFL Draft to a enslaved auction, called for the abolition of instrumentality enforcement and suggested the NFL has not taken meaningful steps to code societal injustices.

Late past year, helium admitted to NPR that helium misses shot and was inactive grooming successful lawsuit a squad called.

"I volition everlastingly miss it," helium told the outlet astatine the clip portion promoting his caller children’s publication "We Are Free You & Me." "And I proceed to bid for it.

"At the extremity of the day, I don't privation to beryllium successful a presumption wherever I look backmost and person to question whether oregon not I gave it my each to effort to prosecute that. I volition marque definite that the crushed I'm not playing is not due to the fact that of my enactment ethic oregon commitment, but due to the fact that I was held retired of it."

Kaepernick told Sky Sports he inactive believed helium could pb a squad to a Super Bowl.

"We're inactive training, inactive pushing," helium said. "So hopefully. We've conscionable got to get 1 of these squad owners to unfastened up.

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"It's thing I've trained my full beingness for, truthful to beryllium capable to measurement backmost connected the field, I deliberation that would beryllium a large moment, a large accomplishment for me. I deliberation I could bring a batch to a squad and assistance them triumph a championship."

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