Former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson said he wanted to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick ahead of the 2017 season.
In an interview with "The Really Big Show" on WKNR AM-850, Jackson described how he wanted to bring Kaepernick to Cleveland following the Browns' 1-15 season in 2016. Instead, the franchise selected quarterback DeShone Kizer in the second round of the 2017 draft and went on to finish with an 0-16 record the following season.
"I wanted him," Jackson said. "It just didn’t work out. Obviously, those things do have to work from a finance, draft, whatever all that is.