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Colin Kaepernick, the NFL just doesn’t want you

By Tom Joyce
Published September 18, 2019 7:16pm ET
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Colin Kaepernick, the NFL just doesn’t want you
Colin Kaepernick attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 6, 2019, in New York. | (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Injuries plague NFL quarterbacks early in the 2019 season, but one constant remains: Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned, as he has for years.

The latest quarterback signing was a fatal blow to fans of the man who started the league’s national anthem kneeling movement in 2016. On Tuesday morning, the New York Jets signed David Fales to be their emergency backup quarterback. Picked in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft, Fales has appeared in three NFL games since. He will back up Luke Falk, who began the season as the Jets third string quarterback.

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