Former Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson said Thursday he urged the team to sign free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2017.
"I wanted him," Jackson said on WKNR Radio in Cleveland (via Jeff Schudel of the News-Herald). "It just didn't work out. Obviously, those things do have to work from a finance, draft, whatever all that is. And that wasn't my decision."
Kaepernick started the movement of kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality in August 2016. He became an unrestricted free agent in March 2017 and hasn't received another opportunity in the NFL despite saying he wants to play.