Colin Kaepernick says he still trains 5-6 days a week

Colin Kaepernick says he’s inactive grooming respective days a week with hopes of returning to the NFL.

The erstwhile San Francisco 49ers backmost hasn’t played successful the shot league since 2016 aft helium kneeled during the nationalist anthem to bring attraction to radical injustice and constabulary brutality successful the U.S.

In 2017, CBS News reports Kaepernick opted retired of his declaration with the 49ers erstwhile it appeared the squad would beryllium cutting him during the offseason. He aboriginal alleged that NFL owners collaborated to support him retired of the league implicit his protests.

Kaepernick has since remained unsigned contempt NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying past June that the league was “wrong” for not listening to NFL players speaking retired astir racism and the systematic oppression of Black people.

“We, the National Football League, judge Black Lives Matter. I personally protestation with you and privation to portion of the much-needed alteration successful this country,” added Goodell successful a video statement made astatine the tallness of the nation’s radical awakening successful the summertime of 2020.

Still, it appears Kaepernick remains hopeful helium tin instrumentality to the field.

In a caller interrogation with Sunny Hostin for Ebony magazine, “The View” co-host asked Kaepernick if helium had fixed up connected his imagination of returning to the NFL. Hostin wrote that the question made him tense up and his demeanor changed.

Kaepernick responded, saying helium “absolutely” inactive acceptable to play successful the league, adding that helium is inactive up astatine 5 a.m. grooming 5 to six days a week to marque definite he’s prepared to instrumentality a squad to a Super Bowl again. He antecedently led the 49ers to Super Bowl XLVII successful 2013, but they were defeated by the Baltimore Ravens.

The jock told Hostin, “That’s not thing I volition ever fto spell of, careless of the actions of 32 teams and their partners to contradict maine employment. The aforesaid mode I was persistent successful precocious schoolhouse is the aforesaid mode I’m gonna beryllium persistent here.”

While he’s not playing shot professionally astatine the moment, Kaepernick is staying engaged with aggregate projects, including moving a younker campy and producing a Netflix bid based connected his teenage years. “Colin successful Black & White” premieres connected the level connected Oct. 29 and reportedly delves into race, class, and culture.