Recently, Colin Kaepernick was named GQ's citizen of the year for 2017, and this has added more fuel to the fire which has accompanied Kaepernick as of late. Colin Kaepernick has been the poster boy for the NFL anthem boycott this year, and with good reason, since Kaepernick is the person who first started doing it.

When Kaepernick began his protest, he was the starting quarterback for the San Francisco '49ers and remained that way throughout the 2016 season. This changed in March of this year, when Kaepernick opted to leave the 49ers and to become a free agent, usually a move made by players who are looking to play for a better team. This move seemed to have backfired, however, as the NFL season is heading into week 11 and Kaepernick still hasn't stepped on a football field yet.

With Colin Kaepernick being left unsigned still, many people have begun to criticize the league, and some have even begun to conspire that the leaders of the teams of the NFL are all conspired to keep Kaepernick off the field due to the anthem protests. Kaepernick seems to believe that this is a plausible theory, as he has now begun the process of suing the NFL over this. Kaepernick's lawyers have begun to depose NFL team owners, and are beginning to search through their email and phone records in hopes of evidence of collusion against him.

The issue is, there doesn't seem to be any smoking gun that can prove that any collusion occurred.

Since Colin Kaepernick opted for free agency, 41 other quarterbacks have been signed to NFL teams. This has come under a lot of fire from fans of Kaepernick, as they argue that a lot of the quarterbacks which have been signed since Kaepernick left the 49ers are severely worse than Kaepernick. I argue that this is mostly true, but what a lot of people seem to disregard is that these quarterbacks aren't, for the most part, being signed to play as a starter, they are being signed as backup quarterbacks, and that's not a position that Kaepernick wants. Kaepernick wants to play starting quarterback for a team that's better than the one he left behind, but by the time any team is going to need a new franchise quarterback, Kaepernick will be too old to even be considered for such a thing.

Another issue with Kaepernick's situation is that he is now suing the NFL. This is the final nail in his career's coffin because no one is going to want to hire somebody who is suing them, and, if successful with his lawsuit, will be taking a cut from their paycheck. So if Kaepernick wasn't on the NFL's blacklist before, he certainly will be now.

So no, I don't think with things being the way they are now, Colin Kaepernick doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell at getting signed to start on an NFL team's roster like he is hoping for. Now, I don't have anything against Kaepernick, not as a player, and certainly not for the boycott which he started, but I think his time in the NFL has now come and gone, and he should put his efforts towards new outlets, like in the political climate he seems so interested in.