Colin Kaepernick selling Bay Area home in midst of career resurgence

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is selling his Bay Area home as he starts to heat up on the gridiron and his NFL future remains a huge question mark.

According to Neal J. Leitereg of the Los Angeles Times, Kaepernick is selling his 4,600 square foot, four-bedroom home in San Jose, Calif. He initially purchased the home for $2.7 million four years ago and is asking just under $2.9 at this time. During the four years in which Kaepernick owned the home, Leitereg notes the home was “extensively remodeled.”

“A living room with a fireplace, an updated kitchen, an office/den, four bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms are among the living areas. A formal dining room currently holds a billiards table, and a paneled lounge features a leather-wrapped bar.”

Sounds like a fantastic place for a rich young bachelor. Kaepernick has recently turned his eyes towards helping those in need, rather than simply catering to his own personal desires (more on that here).

But what does it all mean for Kaepernick, the football player?

Well, according to a team spokesman, per Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee, the move to sell his home is simply “an investment decision.”

But are we really buying that?

That Kap and the 49ers have a fractured relationship is undeniable truth. Dating back to the way things went down under the ill-conceived Jim Tomsula 2015 campaign, and perhaps even before that, Kaepernick has not been happy with the 49ers. This was seen clearly when he asked permission to seek a trade before the 2016 NFL Draft. After a lot of rumors came and went, some legitimate and some not, Kaepernick ended up staying in San Francisco.

Then as the 2016 season began to play out and Blaine Gabbert proved incapable of executing the simplest aspects of running the team’s offense, Kaepernick reworked his contract. The two sides agreed to rip up the built-in injury guarantees that were a huge reason why he had not yet played this year. Playing on essentially a one-year deal with nothing guaranteed for 2017 or beyond, Kaepernick will be a free agent after the season.

Now he’s actually starting to look a bit like the Kaepernick of old, the quarterback who led the 49ers to a Super Bowl under Jim Harbaugh.

So is Kaepernick playing to stay in San Francisco or auditioning for another team?

Speaking on continuity and how much that means to a quarterback, he recently hinted that things were beginning to feel better working with Chip Kelly but wouldn’t make any kind of statement about staying with San Francisco going forward.

“I’m focused on Chicago this week. I’m not thinking that far down the road,” he said, per Barrows. “But that’s very true as far as quarterbacks being in a system that they’re familiar with, they’re familiar with the coach, why they’re calling plays, they’re on the same page so when you step on that field you know exactly why your coach is calling that play, what his intent is and what you’re trying to get done.”

It wouldn’t be shocking either way if Kaepernick leaves after the season or stays on with Kelly, assuming he’s still in San Francisco, too.