Stephen A. Smith and Colin Kaepernick (Photos via Getty Images)
Stephen A. Smith has made his feelings clear on the possibility of Colin Kaepernick returning to the NFL.
A route back to the league has opened up for the former quarterback, although it’s not the one he really wants, with new Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh offering him a coaching job with the team.
“If that was ever the path he was to take, I think that would be tremendous,” Harbaugh said this week, per USA Today. “He’d be a tremendous coach, if that’s the path he chose.”
Smith discussed the surprising job offer on his podcast on Wednesday and, having been one of Kap’s most outspoken critics over the years, suggested he could be a good coach, though he reckons the former 49ers star’s time as an NFL player is done.
“If he wants to bring Colin Kaepernick there, cool. No problem. I think Colin Kaepernick would be a good coach. I think that Colin Kaepernick, if he wants the opportunity, should be the coach,” the ESPN host remarked (H/T Awful Announcing).
“What I would say however is I don’t want to hear [expletive] about him being a quarterback. That ship should have sailed. Not only has it sailed, it should have sailed. I know some people don’t want to say it, I will.”
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Colin Kaepernick Still Wants To Win A Super Bowl As A Quarterback
Kaepernick is unlikely to heed Stephen A’s advice as he only recently expressed a desire to help a team win a Super Bowl as a player.
“We’ve just got to get one of these team owners to open up,” he told Sky Sports. “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.”
Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since 2016 and is unlikely to be offered another shot at QB in the NFL. Whether he takes Harbaugh up on his offer remains to be seen.
Colin Kaepernick Makes Shocking Announcement For The 2028 Summer Olympics In Los Angeles
Colin Kaepernick (Photos via Getty Images)
Many viewers may have seen Colin Kaepernick at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
He wasn’t competing, but he was shaking hands and embracing players like Stephen Curry after winning their gold medal over France.
A feeling of patriotism must have come over him because now Colin Kaepernick wants to represent the country in the Olympics.
He also stated he would try Javelin as well.
“If I could medal in any sport, it would be flag football in 2028 or the Javelin,” Kaepernick told Overtime at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris earlier this month.
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The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback hasn’t played a single game of football since the end of the 2016 season after he immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deemed are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said in 2016. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
Then-49ers head coach Chip Kelly told reporters at the time that Kaepernick’s decision not to stand during the national anthem was “his right as a citizen” and said, “It’s not my right to tell him not to do something.”
Colin Kaepernick was 28-years-old then. No one knew at the time that he would be playing in his final season in the league.
Colin Kaepernick Has Long Been Blackballed From The NFL
Even after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell publicly apologized to Colin Kaepernick, he has not been given a second chance to play in the league.
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the playing of the USA’s national anthem prior to an NFL game in a protest against police, and his career would end soon afterward.
No team has come close to trying to sign him.
