I figured that's what puts this in the Michael Sam/Jason Collins category - come out (literally in their cases) and be controversial when it's becoming obvious your career is either about over (Collins) or not even going to start (Sam) and use it as a political pressure on the team or league. Because the details get lost to history and the mythical tale becomes chronological. Can't you just see the SI article five years from now?
"After Kaepernick made public his stance against police brutality, he never played again and was cut soon thereafter. Many (re: almost nobody) believe his expulsion from football was a direct result of his controversial stance. This, after all, was a player so talented that his first year as a starter he came within one play of winning the Super Bowl and his second year within one play of returning to the championship, something no quarterback in history ever managed to accomplish. Two seasons later, thanks to a fired head coach and racial disharmony, Kaepernick's bold stance suddenly found him on the unemployment line, a victim of his stance against oppression. Yet again, the NFL simply couldn't deal with the militant black willing to tell white America the truth."
I mean, is this not the probable outcome of this nonsense?