Some football fans expected Colin Kaepernick to be on the sidelines at the start of the season. Since the controversial quarterback-turned-social-activist had an audition back to the NFL that went nowhere, many would have thought that he would take the opportunity to play some snaps with Vince McMahon's second crack at the XFL.

However, that never ended up being the case. Questions were immediately raised if the XFL didn't even consider getting him to their league as he will definitely bring buzz to the league.

According to SE Scoops's Ian Carey, XFL commissioner Oliver Luck confirmed that they did approach Kaepernick with an offer to play for one of their teams. However, they weren't able to find a compromise on the paycheck.

“We gave it some thought,” Luck said. “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,” Luck later added.

“Players have numerous opportunities to express themselves with all the platforms that exist today,” Luck said of the rule. “So, you know, standing for the national anthem we believe is a part of their responsibility as players in our league. But we think it’s important to have that requirement for our players.”

Kaepernick was one of the more talented quarterbacks before his off-field activism eventually got him booted out of the NFL. He would have been able to somewhat kickstart his football career once more if he played with the XFL. But he's a professional level player, with the XFL paying minor league prices, so it makes some sense the two couldn't come to an agreement.