Colin Kaepernick has not played in the NFL since the end of 2016 and his famous knee to the ground to protest against police violence against blacks.

But the former San Francisco quarterback reaffirmed his desire to continue his career, even if it means accepting a substitute role.

“I have to find my way back.

So if I have to be picked up as a backup, that's fine with me,” the former San Francisco 49ers star said in an interview that aired on the

I Am Athlete

podcast .

"But I'm not going to settle for that.

And when I prove that I am a starter, I want to be able to enter the field as such.

I just need an opportunity,” he continued.

“I have to find my way back”

Reluctantly, because he always kept himself physically fit and never retired, Kaepernick, 34, has not thrown a single ball on the pitch since the end of his contract with San Francisco, which he drove to the Super Bowl in 2013, ultimately losing.

During his final season, in the fall of 2016, he knelt several times during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.

Other American athletes followed this movement throughout the following year, provoking the ire of Donald Trump, insults as a bonus.

The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 in Minneapolis reignited the anger of millions of protesters and the "Black Lives Matter" movement across the country.

Kaepernick's kneeling had then been rehabilitated.

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