Derek Carr has reacted to Colin Kaepernick potentially joining the Raiders and according to him, he is ready to welcome him to the team.
This is what Carr said when he was asked about his opinion on Colin potentially joining the Raiders;
“I don’t want to speak for everybody in that kind of sense — I don’t want someone mad at me for saying, ‘I think it would be great,’ — but I know him and I would get along great,” Carr told reporters.
“I think for the most part, I think he’d get along great with our guys,” added Carr.
According to Side Action;
Carr’s known Kaepernick for years, the two QB’s played in the Western Athletic Conference.
“I’ve told you guys, I’ve loved my time with him. I think he’s a great guy,” said Carr. “He’s been great to be around. I’ve enjoyed being around him, talking with him, competing against him.”
Kaepernick last played in the NFL back in 2016, and it wasn’t pretty. He won one game in 11 starts with San Francisco. That season he was sacked 36 times and completed less than 60% of his passes. Plus he fumbled nine times.
It doesn’t seem like the Raiders are in a hurry to sign him even though they have trash backups behind Carr.
Colin Kaepernick is getting his first chance to work out for an NFL team since last playing in the league in 2016 when he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality.
Two people familiar with the situation said Kaepernick will work out for the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hadn’t announced the workout plans. ESPN first reported that the Raiders were bringing in Kaepernick.
Kaepernick hasn’t played since the end of the 2016 season when he was cut by San Francisco when the new regime led by coach Kyle Shanahan wanted to go a different direction at quarterback.
Kaepernick never got another opportunity even to work out for NFL teams as he alleged he had been blackballed over his protests during the anthem the previous season. He met with Seattle and had informal talks with Baltimore but never got a closer look.
He filed a grievance with the NFL in 2017 over his lack of opportunity and settled it in 2019 — but still never got another look.
The Raiders have been at the forefront on diversity over their history, hiring Tom Flores as the second coach of Hispanic descent, Art Shell as the first Black coach in modern history, and Amy Trask as the first female CEO.
Owner Mark Davis has publicly said he would back his coaches if they wanted to take a look at Kaepernick, and first-year coach Josh McDaniels is doing just that.
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