Colin Kaepernick Still Wants To Play In Nfl, 'up To Teams If They'll Let Him,' Girlfriend Says

Colin Kaepernick has not taken a threat successful nan NFL since Jan. 1, 2017, but it’s not stopping him from holding retired dream for different changeable arsenic a backmost successful nan league.

Kaepernick’s longtime woman Nessa Diab revealed nan erstwhile San Francisco 49ers star, who knelt during nan nationalist anthem successful 2016 successful protestation of group injustice successful nan U.S., is still training for an NFL opportunity.

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Colin Kaepernick speaks onstage during The Gordon Parks Foundation's yearly awards meal and auction connected May 21, 2024, successful New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Gordon Parks Foundation)

"All day, each day," she told TMZ Sports complete nan weekend. "Nothing’s changed."

She added that "of course" he still wants to play.

"It’s each up to nan teams if they’ll fto him," she said.

Kaepernick, 37, past suited up for nan 49ers during nan 2016 season. He was 17-of-22 for 215 yards and a touchdown against nan Seattle Seahawks. Since then, teams person not been willing successful Kaepernick capable to bring him onto their roster – moreover successful training camp.

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Colin Kaepernick participates successful a throwing accumulation during halftime of nan Michigan outpouring shot crippled astatine Michigan Stadium connected April 2, 2022, successful Ann Arbor. (Jaime Crawford/Getty Images)

Kaepernick has besides built up his societal activistic level done Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing. He has compared nan NFL Draft to a enslaved auction, called for nan abolition of rule enforcement and suggested nan NFL has not taken meaningful steps to reside societal injustices.

Late past year, he admitted to NPR that he misses shot and was still training successful lawsuit a squad called.

"I will everlastingly miss it," he told nan outlet successful October while promoting his caller children’s book "We Are Free You & Me." "And I proceed to train for it.

"At nan extremity of nan day, I don't want to beryllium successful a position wherever I look backmost and person to mobility whether aliases not I gave it my each to effort to prosecute that. I will make judge that nan logic I'm not playing is not because of my activity ethic aliases commitment, but because I was held retired of it."

Kaepernick told Sky Sports he still believed he could lead a squad to a Super Bowl.

"We're still training, still pushing," he said. "So hopefully. We've conscionable sewage to get 1 of these squad owners to unfastened up.

Colin Kaepernick of nan San Francisco 49ers connected nan sideline during nan Tampa Bay Buccaneers crippled astatine Levi's Stadium connected Oct. 23, 2016, successful Santa Clara, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

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"It's thing I've trained my full life for, truthful to beryllium capable to measurement backmost connected nan field, I deliberation that would beryllium a awesome moment, a awesome accomplishment for me. I deliberation I could bring a batch to a squad and thief them triumph a championship."

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