ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter believes commissioner Rodger Goodell feels bad about the Colin Kaepernick situation which is a big reason why he has set up the workout to try and get him some exposure to NFL teams.
On Tuesday, NFL teams received a memo from the league that a workout and interview would be taking place on Saturday with Kaepernick. Goodell played a big part in setting up the workout and Schefter thinks it's because of his feelings about the situation.
“I think Roger Goodell, there’s a part of him, the Commissioner, that feels bad about the way that this has unfolded,” Schefter said on ESPN. “And I think that he believes that he must do his part to try to get a workout for Colin Kaepernick, to try to get interviews with Colin Kaepernick, to try to do his part to get Colin Kaepernick in front of teams.”
Schefter knows that the league can't force any team to sign Kaepernick but they are giving him every chance to get in front of teams to maybe give him another shot.
“Now Roger Goodell cannot make teams sign a quarterback himself, and we’ve seen what has transpired in recent months and years where nobody has brought him in to visit, nobody has worked him out, and he essentially has been persona non grata with the NFL. This is a reversal of that with the league office. This is the league office stepping in to try to make sure that Colin Kaepernick . . . has a chance to show to teams what he can’t do, what he can do, what his level of interest is in returning, how much he’d like to be back in football.”
At this point, it's unclear how many teams are going to show up for the workout, or if there is a real chance any team signs him but it's clear that the NFL is doing everything in their power to try and give Kaepernick another shot in the league.
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