Colin Kaepernick has made his intention of a return to the NFL crystal clear in recent weeks. After completing a workout during halftime of the Michigan spring game, the former 49ers quarterback conducted an at-length interview to discuss his comeback attempt.
Speaking with Brandon Marshall, Chad Johnson and Adam "Pacman" Jones in an interview on the I Am Athlete podcast, Kaepernick expressed his willingness to return to the NFL as a backup, if that’s what it would take to get a spot in the league. However, he pointed to the Seahawks as a franchise that doesn’t have a clear starter heading into the 2022 season when recalling that Seattle was the only team to bring him in for a meeting back in 2017.
“No team’s brought me in for a workout,” Kaepernick said on the show. “No team has brought me in for an opportunity. I had the one meeting with Seattle in 2017. And out of that, Pete Carroll said, ‘Hey, he’s a starter, we have a starter.’ And things moved on from there. But they don’t have a starter right now.”
