Colin Kaepernick won’t be on the LA Chargers this year, says head coach Jim Harbaugh

Amy Woodyatt and Ben Church, CNN

LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Colin Kaepernick won’t beryllium joining nan Los Angeles Chargers arsenic a coach aliases a subordinate this season, according to caput coach Jim Harbaugh.

“I emotion Colin,” Harbaugh told reporters Thursday. “But he’s not going to beryllium connected my coaching unit this year, and he’s not going to beryllium connected nan roster either.”

This comes aft it emerged earlier that Harbaugh was unfastened to nan anticipation of Kaepernick joining nan squad successful a coaching capacity 1 day.

“If that was ever nan way he was to take, I deliberation that would beryllium tremendous,” Harbaugh told USA TODAY aft a training campy believe past week. “He’d beryllium a tremendous coach, if that’s nan way he chose.”

Harbaugh said he had contacted his erstwhile backmost earlier successful nan twelvemonth but that thing had yet travel of nan conversation.

On Thursday, Harbaugh said his liking successful having Kaepernick connected nan coaching unit mirrors nan opportunity that he himself was offered by precocious Raiders proprietor Al Davis.

“Al Davis saw thing successful maine that made him deliberation I would beryllium a awesome coach,” Harbaugh said. “I spot those qualities successful Colin.”

Kaepernick, for his part, precocious told Sky Sports that he still holds hopes of playing successful nan NFL again.

“We’re still training, still pushing,” Kaepernick told Sky Sports News earlier this month. “So hopefully – we’ve conscionable sewage to get 1 of these squad owners to unfastened up.”

Kaepernick has not played successful nan NFL since 2016, aft he sparked contention by sitting, past kneeling, during nan National Anthem earlier respective games to protestation nan constabulary shootings of Black men and different societal injustices faced by nan Black community.

In March 2017, he opted retired of his 49ers statement and became a free agent. No NFL squad signed him. In October 2017, he revenge his grievance lawsuit against nan NFL, alleging that teams were colluding to contradict him a job.

The backmost settled a collusion grievance lawsuit against nan NFL, on pinch his erstwhile 49ers teammate Eric Reid, successful 2019.

Kaepernick and Harbaugh had antecedently enjoyed occurrence during their clip pinch nan 49ers together, reaching nan Super Bowl successful 2013 – narrowly losing retired to nan Baltimore Ravens.