Colin Kaepernick Wants to Play Flag Football at 2028 Olympics – NBC Bay Area

Colin Kaepernick still wants to play NFL football… and the Olympics?

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who last played in the NFL in 2016, was asked about the possibility of flag football being played at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

“We hope to be there” Kaepernick told Sky Sports:“We’ll work on some things, see if we can make it work. But we want to be there.”

The non-contact sport, in which a player is stopped by tearing off a flag attached to a belt around the ball carrier’s waist, will make its Olympic debut in 2028. Some NFL players have already expressed interest in playing, and the league is said to still be in the development stage. Encourage active players to compete.

Kaepernick, 36, has not played in an NFL game since parting ways with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 after he began kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racial injustice.

“We are still training and doing our best,” he told Sky Sports. “So hopefully we can convince one of the team owners to open up.”

Kaepernick, who was selected by San Francisco in the second round of the 2011 draft, spent his entire six-year career with the San Francisco Giants. He led the team to Super Bowl XLVII, where they lost to the Baltimore Ravens, 34-31.

Kaepernick has a career record of 28–30 in the regular season with 12,271 passing yards, 72 passing touchdowns, 30 interceptions, a 59.8 completion percentage and 13 rushing touchdowns.

In Kaepernick’s final season with the team in 2016, the 49ers had just one win against 10 losses in his starts.

He hasn’t been able to attract much attention in the league since, despite some high-profile training and open tryouts.

He met with the Seattle Seahawks in 2017 and trained with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2022, but both teams declined to sign him. Kaepernick wrote a letter to the New York Jets last season asking to join the practice squad after newly acquired quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles injury on the team’s first offensive possession.

“I mean, it’s something I’ve trained for my whole life,” Kaepernick told Sky Sports when asked what it would mean to return to the NFL. “So, I think getting back on the field would be a big moment and a big accomplishment for me. I think it’s something I can do a lot for the team and help them win a championship.”