If this report is true, than that “lonely island” Colin Kaepernick is on just got a little smaller and more private.
After losing their second straight game — this time at the hands of the talented St. Louis Rams — the San Francisco 49ers fell to 2-5 on the season.
Jason Cole of Bleacher Report is reporting — via several text from disgruntled Niners player — that it’s “time for Colin Kaepernick to be benched.”
“Two 49ers players texted me and said after this game that it is time for Colin Kaepernick to be benched. This game lost to the Rams was the tipping point in a series of events that have been building and building and building to this point,” Cole reports. “What these players say is they don’t want Kaepernick’s to be out of the plans for the 49ers. But simply put they think he needs time on the bench to clear his head, get himself straight so he understands what the offense is trying to do and what he can do to make it work.”
Kaepernick is in the second year of his seven-year, $126.97 million contract that included $61 million guaranteed and will make a base salary of $12.4 million for the 2015 season.
He finished the game 20 for 41 for 162 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions, while running six times for 28 yards.
The fact that he accomplished that with no weapons is a tremendous in itself.