{"id":858093,"date":"2026-09-23T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858093\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:08:27","slug":"john-harbaugh-gets-another-chance-to-consider-colin-kaepernick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858093\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh gets another chance to consider Colin Kaepernick"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Colin Kaepernick was being ignored by the NFL teams, he didn\u2019t have much to say. Now that he\u2019s selling a book, interviews with Kaepernick are popping up everywhere.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t paid much attention to his various sit-downs and sound bites because, frankly, it\u2019s an old story. The NFL has long since moved on from Kaepernick, freezing him out long enough to make it unrealistic that the now-38-year-old quarterback would have a plausible path to a roster, a practice squad, or even a tryout.<\/p>\n

Still, one news item caught our eye in recent weeks. With Kaepernick\u2019s book tour putting him back in the vicinity of the front burner, Giants coach John Harbaugh told Ian O\u2019Connor of The Athletic that Harbaugh wanted to add Kaepernick to the Ravens in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Through it all, Kaepernick got one workout, five years ago with the Raiders. With the Giants now desperate for quarterback help (and with Jake Haener and Brandon Allen as the most viable options behind new starter Jameis Winston), why not bring Kaepernick in for a look?<\/p>\n

Kaepernick continues to say that he\u2019s staying in shape, and that he wants to play. It should be immediately obvious whether he still has the abilities that made Harbaugh interested in him nine years ago.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh\u2019s New York staff includes Greg Roman, who was the offensive coordinator during Kaepernick\u2019s first four years in San Francisco. It would be easy, in theory, to configure the offense to fit Kaepernick. If Kaepernick still has the skills he had when he last played.<\/p>\n

It starts with a workout (and quite possibly ends with one). There\u2019s no reason not to give it a whirl. The anthem controversy has subsided. (Harbaugh and the Giants surely would want assurances that Kaepernick wouldn\u2019t dust it off, if he ended up on the sideline before games.) <\/p>\n

The threshold question is how does Kaepernick look? And there\u2019s only one way to find out. The Giants, who now face not having Jaxson Dart for up to the rest of the season, have plenty of reasons to give Kaepernick a chance to show them what he can do.<\/p>\n

It would be different if John Harbaugh hadn\u2019t recently spoken in such glowing terms about Kaepernick. With not many viable options available in free agency \u2014 and with Harbaugh having considerable power in New York \u2014 let\u2019s see if Harbaugh puts his recent words into current action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Colin Kaepernick was being ignored by the NFL teams, he didn\u2019t have much to say. Now that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-858093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}