HC Jim Harbaugh offered Colin Kaepernick a Chargers coaching position

Colin Kaepernick has not played in the NFL since 2016, but has expressed a desire to return to the game. His former head coach, Jim Harbaugh, who now coaches the Los Angeles Chargers, is also excited about Kaepernick’s comeback to the game at 36. But not as a player; as a coach.

“We talked briefly about it. Harbaugh told USA Today in January that Kaepernick is considering joining his coaching staff. “He was outside the country. He said he will get back to me. We haven’t communicated since then. That was very early in the year.

• • Harbaugh also believes Kaepernick would be a “tremendous coach.”

• The San Francisco 49ers selected Kaepernick in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft, Harbaugh’s first season as head coach. Kaepernick did not make a start until the middle of the 2012 season, when experienced starter Alex Smith suffered a concussion and the second-year quarterback seized the opportunity to start and ran away with it. Kaepernick retained the starter and concluded the regular season (13 appearances, seven starts) with 1,814 yards and 10 touchdowns, a passing rating of 98.3, and 415 yards and five touchdowns rushing. San Francisco advanced to Super Bowl XLVII before falling to the Baltimore Ravens and head coach John Harbaugh, Jim’s

• brother.

• Barring injury and a brief benching in favour of Blaine Gabbert to start 2016, Kaepernick was San Francisco’s primary quarterback for the better part of the following four years. Prior to the 2016 regular season, Kaepernick openly said that he was protesting the national anthem to bring attention to racial inequalities in America. He opted out of his contract for the 2017 NFL season and has not been signed to an NFL club since.
  After the 2014 season, Harbaugh parted ties with the 49ers and became the new head coach at his alma university, Michigan. Kaepernick was an honorary captain for Michigan’s 2022 spring game.

  After nine years at Ann Arbour and winning a national title last season, Harbaugh was hired to be

The Chargers hired a new head coach in January.