Alex Smith says it's 'absurd' that Colin Kaepernick doesn't have an NFL job
Washington quarterback Alex Smith was the subject of an ESPN documentary that ran Friday night about his recovery from a gruesome leg injury that grew more gruesome because of numerous infections that have hindered his recovery.
During the promotional rounds for the documentary, Smith has been making media appearances. On “The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz” radio show this week, Smith was asked about his former San Francisco 49ers teammate Colin Kaepernick.
And Smith made it clear he doesn’t understand why Kaepernick doesn’t have an NFL job.
“It was hard to kind of see that trajectory because he was playing so good, and doing things nobody had done,” Smith said on ESPN Radio. “I think he still holds the single-game rushing record for a quarterback. It was crazy.
“So with that said, it was so absurd — I think equally — that it was only a few years later when you’re like, ‘This guy doesn’t have a job.’ That was hard to imagine. It still is, a guy with his ability and his trajectory that all of a sudden wasn’t playing.”
Kaepernick has not played in the NFL since 2016, when he protested racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem on the sidelines of NFL games. He was reportedly set to hold workouts for NFL teams this fall, but things broke down when the league asked Kaepernick to sign a waiver his representatives said would totally indemnify the league from legal action.
Kaepernick ended up holding an open, public workout, but was not signed by a team.