Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and football quarterback who is a free agent. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League. As a political activist, he knelt during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States. He is the only player in NCAA Division I FBS history to amass 10,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career.
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Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and football quarterback who is a free agent. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League. As a political activist, he knelt during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States. In November 2017, he filed a grievance against the NFL and its owners, accusing them of colluding to keep him out of the league. Kaepernick withdrew the grievance in February 2019 after reaching a confidential settlement with the NFL. He is the only player in NCAA Division I FBS history to amass 10,000 passing yards and 4,000 rushing yards in a career. His protests received renewed attention in 2020 amid the George Floyd protests, but, as of November 2020, he remains unsigned by any professional football team. His birth father, who is African-American, separated from Russo before Kaepernick was born. He was placed for adoption with a white couple named Rick and Teresa Kaepernick. The couple had two older children: son Kyle and daughter Devon. The Kaepernicks decided to adopt a boy after losing two other sons to heart defects. Kaepernick lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, until age four, when his family moved to California. When he was eight years old, he began playing youth football as a defensive end and punter. At age nine, he was the starting quarterback on his youth team, and he completed his first pass for a long touchdown.
Kaepernick played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack, where he was named the Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year twice. He became just the fifth player in the NCAA history to pass for 2,000 yards and 1,000 rush or more in a single season. At the Super Bowl, he had 370 passing yards, passing touchdowns, and rushing touchdowns for the 49ers. He also led the team to their first Super Bowl appearance since 1994. He received several scholarship offers in baseball, but he wanted to play college football. In February 2006, Kaepernick signed with the University of Nevada, Reno. He started his college career in 2007 as a back-up quarterback, playing in 11 of the team’s games. He finished the season with 19,175 yards, three interceptions and 13,175 passing touchdowns. The 49ers missed the playoffs for three years consecutively. Over the next three seasons, Kaepernick lost and won back his starting job, with the49ers missing the playoffs in each of the last three years. In the 2013 season, his first full season as a starter, Kaepernick helped the 49er reach the NFC Championship Game. He was the most valuable player of the Central California Conference in football, leading his school to its first-ever playoff victory. In his senior year, Kaepernick was a first-team All-CCC selection at forward and led his 16th-ranked team to a near upset of No. 1-ranked Oak Ridge High School in the opening round of the playoffs.
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