The San Francisco 49ers and quarterback Colin Kaepernick have signed a restructuring of his deal, wiping out the final four years and turning it into a one-year contract with a player option to extend the deal for next year, sources tell ESPN.
Kaepernick has become the nation’s most talked-about athlete to not record a meaningful statistic in 2016, having begun taking a knee during playings of the national anthem to protest what he calls police brutality and systemic racism in the United States.
“We’ve had a couple days to kind of digest everything where we are and I think offensively we need to be better and we need to just make a move”.
“I think offensively we need to be better and just make a move”.
49ers coach Chip Kelly announced Kaepernick would be the starter for Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills.
A exhausted arm shut him down for two weeks in training camp and Kelly went with Gabbert as starter, saying Kaepernick had not regained the strength he lost after surgery and wasn’t ready to be starter again. We need to focus on this opponent and believe me, we will.
“We don’t have hardly any tape on him to know what his tendencies are, where he’s going with the ball, where he likes to run the ball and things like that, or how healthy or how athletic he is at this point. It’s really one of the only maneuvers we can make based on our depth”.
On Sunday, Kaepernick will come out of the tunnel, take his usual kneel down during the National Anthem, and then take the field against a team which has won three straight games.
Kaepernick said last month he meant to donate the first $1 million he earns this year to different organizations that help communities, although he did not name specific ones. “It’s something that I’m ready to step on that field, I’m ready to play. I’m not going to slack on the film work just because I’m not playing”.
Gabbert passed for 890 yards with five touchdowns and six interceptions in his five starts.
“If you look at every position we have an offense, we rotate”, Kelly said. In the past three wins, the Bills have averaged 178.3 rushing yards per game and 5.9 yards per carry.
His last quarterback rating of 78.5 still sits above that of Gabbert’s current rating.
Last year’s Heisman Trophy runner-up did not play most of the second half of last Saturday’s 42-16 loss to Washington State.
“My take on it is obviously the things the cops are doing is definitely wrong”, McCoy said Wednesday. This is also a flawless letdown spot for a Bills team that has expended a lot of energy in getting back on track over the last three weeks. “I think both guys are similar enough”.