Kaepernick has been out the league since 2016.
Throughout a press convention on Wednesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was requested about Colin Kaepernick and why he is not nonetheless within the league. The commissioner chalked it as much as the 32 NFL groups merely not considering that the quarterback might assist them win video games and that it had nothing to do with the anthem protests. Kaepernick’s lawyer Mark Geragos took exception to the feedback and went on the Right this moment Present the place he claimed that the league’s relationship with President Donald Trump is why Kaepernick is and not using a job.
“I feel the commissioner was roasted appropriately on social media… The entire thing is principally a ruse. The collusion really was the NFL kowtowing to the President,” Geragos mentioned.
Geragos additionally mentioned it is senseless that Mark Sanchez was signed to a contract however Kap nonetheless could not even get an interview. He added that collusion is most actually at play right here.
“You’d should imagine that 32 people got here to the identical conclusion individually and determined that they only weren’t going to win,” Geragos quipped. “There is not anybody who’s acquired a pair neurons firing that would not say that is collusive exercise.”
Geragos and Kaepernick are at present embroiled in a authorized battle with the NFL over the alleged collusion.