49ers defensive end Nick Bosa addressed several of his controversial tweets on Friday after being selected with the second pick in the NFL draft, specifically clarifying a 2016 tweet in which he called former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick a "clown."
Bosa apologized for some of his comments and called his tweet criticizing Kaepernick “a bad decision," adding, "I respect what he's done."
“No, it wasn’t directed towards that,” Bosa said of Kaepernick's decision to protest during the national anthem, per Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports. “It’s not like I’m saying his stance and what he was doing.