The San Francisco 49ers have been terrible this season but their controversial quarterback is close to his best as free agency looms
Colin Kaepernick is probably not going to be the San Francisco 49ers quarterback next season. This has less to do with his refusal to stand for the national anthem and more to do with the fact he will be a free agent this winter and the Niners need to find themselves a quarterback around whom they can build.
But he should be somebody’s quarterback in 2017. In a league filled with retreads, flops and never-really-were’s surely there is a place for a 29-year-old near Super Bowl winner who can beat teams with both his arm and legs. In what has become an audition for his next job, Kaepernick continues to show glimpses of why he was once-seen as one of the NFL’s best young quarterbacks. Sunday he nearly led a dreadful 49ers team past the Miami Dolphins in a game they had no business winning. On a final spring to the end zone, he came up a yard short as time expired in a 31-24 loss.
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