I am not surprised by this.
The AAF wants to be bought out by the NFL and become their minor league, so it would make sense for them to leak a false story about Kaepernick.
The story goes Kap asked for $20 million, but that never made sense because Kap knows the AAF pay scale. According to an AAF source money was never discussed.
https://twitter.com/AllbrightNFL/status/1096486478870265856
https://twitter.com/AllbrightNFL/status/1096547712017805313
This is true it was one anonymous source that no one could confirm and literally every site ran with it as it was 100% truth.
They did this because making Kaepernick into the villain at least in the media is good for business and it is no coincidence this story was leaked right before Kaepernick settled his lawsuit with NFL for likely over $50 million.
The AAF story was leaked so it gave time for MAGA media to point out how they believe Kaepernick was just in it for the money before an actual money settlement happened.
I spoke with a couple of people close to the situation and they said the $20 million number is ludicrous and Kaepernick like Tebow wasn’t going to play in a league as a sideshow.
Not one outlet has pointed out that the $20 million store likely wasn’t true.
Just think about that.