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Heisman Trophy winner: Kaepernick’s activism ‘tells you he doesn’t want to work’

Erstwhile quarterback Colin Kaepernick was invited to seek employment elsewhere Friday, and this time the rebuke wasn’t from an NFL owner.

Two-time Pro Bowl running back Herschel Walker checked in with TMZ Sports with some unsolicited advice for Kaepernick, who has been unable to latch on with another team since opting out of his 49ers contract in early 2017.

The kneeling, Walker said, has got to go.

“I own a chicken company,” Walker said. “If the guy that I hire don’t do what I ask him to do, why do I hire him? And I think that’s the problem right there, you know.