Colin Kaepernick Ought to Name UFL If He Nonetheless Needs To Play, League Exec Says

If Colin Kaepernick needs to place some tape collectively for an NFL return, there’s one league open to giving him that platform — ‘trigger UFL exec Doug Whaley says if the quarterback got here calling, they’d pay attention.

Whaley — the UFL’s senior vice chairman of participant personnel — spoke with TMZ Sports activities this week … proper forward of the 2025-26 NFL season, which can mark practically 9 years since Kaepernick final performed within the league.

The UFL (United Soccer League) has constructed a status for giving gamers and coaches a platform to develop their method to the NFL. So, we requested whether or not Kaepernick — who hasn’t performed since his nationwide anthem demonstration — could be welcome to go the same route.

“He hasn’t reached out to us, so it was a kind of issues the place we have seen that, and he is aware of we’re right here, so if he actually needs it, we might pay attention,” Whaley mentioned. “It’d value us nothing to pay attention.”

“There are avenues for him, not solely with us, however CFL. There are different avenues that if he wished to place current sport tape on the market, he might have an opportunity to do it.”

Kaepernick was a stable quarterback who bought his beginning spot with the 49ers after Alex Smith suffered an damage within the 2012 season. He earned 85 touchdowns (13 on the bottom) because the Niners’ starter … and broke a number of information, together with most speeding yards by a QB in a single sport (181).

He guided the 49ers to Tremendous Bowl XLVII in New Orleans … however after opting out of his contract forward of the 2017 season, he hasn’t performed within the execs since.