The XFL could really use some star players and someone like Colin Kaepernick would make a lot of sense. According to XFL commissioner Oliver Luck, the league did take a long look at Kaepernick, but with the salary restrictions, it never progressed with him getting a shot.
“We gave it some thought,” Luck said of the possibility of signing Kaepernick, via NBC Sports Bay Area. “We have some pretty significant salary restrictions, you know. We’re a start-up league, so we want to make sure that we can be fiscally responsible and fiscally prudent. And the salary requirements that some folks shared with us were in our case exorbitant, so we couldn’t go down that path. . . . We spoke with his representative, and the salary requirements that were broached in that conversation were exorbitant and certainly out of our range.”
It was reported that Kaepernick wanted $20 million a year to play in the AAF. It's unclear how much he was asking for from the XFL, but chances are it was more than the league could afford.
Luck was asked if Kaepernick went down with his demands if there might be a spot for him in the XFL, but he wouldn't give a yes or no answer.
“I don’t know,” Luck said. “That was well over a year ago, so I don’t know what kind of shape, you know, Colin is in. And, you know, we haven’t followed that because obviously, again, we want the best players who are interested in playing in our league. That’s, you know, pretty much a requisite for our job.”
The XFL had a successful first week, but to make this a successful long-term league, they probably need to bring in more star players to keep the interest up.
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