No less of a coach than Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks believes that Colin Kaepernick is ”a starter in this league,” whatever that means.
It certainly doesn’t mean Kaepernick will have a job in the NFL this coming season. Not in Seattle, which declined to sign him, and probably not among the other 30 teams that – under different circumstances – would be lining up to outbid each other to sign a quarterback of his talent.
A lot of NFL fans think that’s a good thing. They hate the idea that Kaepernick wouldn’t stand during the playing of his country’s national anthem, and hate any suggestion that the team they love might sign a player so publicly out of touch with how they feel.