Colin Kaepernick remains one of the most polarizing players in the NFL, even though he hasn’t been signed with a team since the end of the 2016 NFL season. Obviously this stems from the fact that Kaepernick started the movement in which NFL players knelt during national anthem to protest police brutality.
Most people either praise him or disparage him for this. It’s safe to say former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer is squarely in the former group. He was speaking with Nicki Jhabvala of the Denver Post about the Denver Broncos when the subject of Kaepernick came up. Jhabvala asked Plummer if he thought an NFL team would give Kaepernick another shot to play.
He responded by calling out NFL owners and organizations as “scared” and being run by “bigoted people.”
“I think that they’re all scared and that they’re uneducated on him as a person and what he wants to do. I don’t know if he wants to play for organizations run by scared, kind of bigoted people that don’t understand what it’s like to be in the shoes of someone like him and to see the things he’s seen and relate to the people that go through the atrocities of what everyday people deal with.”
Plummer went on to say he hopes some team does sign Kaepernick, saying “I would really love it because I love watching him play. I would love to see him come here [to Denver] but I’m not sure if they would do that.”
As of late last season, Kaepernick was still training daily for a potential return to the NFL and expressed a strong desire to pick up his football career. However, he’s also in the middle of escalating a case against NFL owners in which he accuses them of collusion, which likely will continue to keep him out of the league.