This sure is the big one, isn’t it? The San Francisco 49ers have tried a number of things at quarterback, a startling amount since they took Alex Smith in the first round of ... gosh, that draft so very long ago. Shaun Hill, J.T. O’Sullivan, Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick all started at quarterback for the 49ers, and only one of those players ever had a chance of doing anything decent for the franchise.
I don’t know if Kaepernick would have found further success and righted his career had Jim Harbaugh got along better with Trent Baalke and Jed York.