Tom Brady Hopes Colin Kaepernick Receives an Opportunity for NFL Contract

Colin Kaepernick worked out for NFL teams on Saturday, and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he hoped the former San Francisco 49ers signal-caller gets another chance to play in the NFL.

“Like I said, it’s great that he got an opportunity. Hopefully he makes the most of it,” Brady said Monday on the Greg Hill Morning Show, per Ryan Hannable of WEEI. “Hopefully he gets an opportunity. That’s kind of how I feel. I like Colin.”

Kaepernick’s workout on Saturday served as much of a public relations battle between the NFL and the quarterback as anything else. The 32-year-old, unhappy with the conditions the league set up, ditched the NFL’s workout and staged his own.

But the issues didn’t end there, as Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal outlined:

“The NFL then balked at a different waiver proposed by Kaepernick’s lawyer at the last minute, deeming it inadequate, and his team’s request to make the workout open to the media for transparency. Along the way, Nike—both an NFL sponsor and prominent Kaepernick endorser—was caught in the middle of the rancor.

“So Kaepernick staged his own workout at an Atlanta-area high school in front of cameras and reporters. Eight teams came, versus the 25 who were to attend the league-sanctioned workout.”

The event seemed ill-fated from the jump. Namely, holding it on a Saturday, when many scouts and executives would be attending college games, was a bizarre choice by the NFL. The perception from Kaepernick supporters was the NFL was hosting the event for public relations purposes, so they could say Kaepernick got his workout with NFL teams after receiving no interest from teams over the past three years.