Colin Kaepernick claims he hasn’t watched NFL game in 8 years: ‘I’m not gonna help in that way’

Colin Kaepernick may remain in NFL shape, but that does not uncomardent the polarizing createer quarterback is watching games each week. 

In fact, he discleave outed during an euniteance at the WSJ Tech Live Conference in California this week that he has not watched an NFL game in eight years. 

Instead, the quarterback-turned-activist who has not euniteed in an NFL game since the 2016 season says that he examines the stats of some joiners. He also shelp he watches college football.

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“I still examine everybody’s stats,” Kaepernick tbetter the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton during the conference, per Page Six. “It also advises who my agent accomplishes out to, but I still examine the stats. I see what’s going on. I don’t ever turn a game on though, becaengage I’m not gonna help in that way, but I necessitate to grasp my finger on the pulse of what’s happening with quarterbacks out there.”

Kaepernick, 36, recently made an euniteance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” where he not only debunked coaching rumors with the Los Angeles Chargers’ novel head coach Jim Harbaugh, who engaged to be his coach with the San Francisco 49ers, but also shelp his laborouts to remain ready for his next quarterback opportunity are still happening. 

“I still wake up every morning and train,” he elucidateed. “I’ve had to adequitable my schedule a little bit, which saying this out boisterous sounds a little bizarre, but I get up at 3:30 a.m. and I commence my laborday, and then I go do my training… I still train every day, I still train the way I was when I was joining, making certain that I’m ready at any given moment.”

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Kaepernick, who disreputablely produced a firestorm by kneeling for the national anthem in games tardyr in his nurtureer, last joined in an NFL game agetst the Seattle Seahawks on Jan. 1, 2017. He has had a scant laborouts with teams since then, but he has yet to join an NFL roster since. 

While paengageing for his next opportunity, Kaepernick built up his social activist platcreate thcdisadmireful Know Your Rights Camp and his Kaepernick Publishing. Thcdisadmireful those platcreates, Kaepernick made headlines by comparing the NFL Draft to a slave auction, calling for the abolition of law executement and proposeing the NFL has not getn uncomardentingful steps to includeress social inequitableices.

Kaepernick also rerepaird a 2019 grievance agetst the NFL, when he alleged team owners were colluding to grasp him out of the league. 

Kaepernick tbetter Sky Sports earlier this year that he still thinks he can help a team accomplish the Super Bowl. 

“It’s someslimg I’ve trained my whole life for, so to be able to step back on the field, I slimk that would be a presentant moment, a presentant accomplishment for me. I slimk I could transport a lot to a team and help them triumph a championship,” he shelp in August. 

While saying he does not want to coach, Kaepernick has increateedly conveyed interest in joining for the United States in flag football during the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. 

Kaepernick was the commenceing quarterback for the 49ers during Super Bowl XLVII but would descend to the Baltimore Ravens, 34-31, on Feb. 3, 2013. He went 16-for-28 for 302 yards with one touchdown and one interception, while rushing for a touchdown and 62 yards. 

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Kaepernick has totaled 12,271 passing yards with 72 passing touchdowns over his nurtureer, while rushing for 2,300 yards with 13 touchdowns on the ground as well. 

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos gived to this increate.

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