Earlier this week, Colin Kaepernick announced that he is still trying to make a comeback to the NFL after being out of the league since 2016 when he went unsigned following his national anthem protests. But he got some pretty brutal news in that regard as his former coach, Jim Harbaugh, has declined to bring him onto the roster or his coaching staff.
Los Angeles Chargers Jim Harbaugh recently revealed that he has been in contact with Colin Kaepernick about the former quarterback moving into coaching. But that doesn’t mean Harbaugh will be giving him a job with the Chargers.
“I love Colin, and always will, and that gets conflated into he might play here or might coach here. I love Colin, but he’s not going to be on the coaching staff — it’s set for this year. And he’s not going to be playing on the roster either,” Harbaugh said in a recent press conference according to Pro Football Talk.
But Harbaugh still spoke highly of Kaepernick and thinks he would be a great coach.
“I’ve thought that for a long time,” Harbaugh said. “Just the respect that I have for the football mind he has and the football man that he is. I’ve touched base with him several times, back to Michigan days, and when I started putting together the staff here I pulsed his interest — I don’t know how to explain it, Al Davis saw something in me that made him think that I would be a good coach, and I see those same qualities in Colin if it’s something he chooses, if it’s the path he chooses to do.”
But he won’t be joining the Chargers this year.
