Colin Kaepernick
 Kaepernick (2012) |
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| Quarterback | |
| Date of birth: November 3, 1987 | |
| Place of birth: Milwaukee , Wisconsin | |
| Height: 1.96 m | Weight: 104 kg |
| NFL debut | |
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| 2011 for the San Francisco 49ers | |
| Career | |
| College : Nevada | |
| NFL Draft : 2011 / Round: 2 / Pick: 36 | |
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| Current status: Free Agent | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Selected NFL stats (as of 17th week of the 2016 season) |
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| Touchdowns : interceptions | 72:30 |
| Passing game | 12,271 yards |
| Pass attempts | 1,692 |
| Passes arrived | 1.011 |
| Quota | 59.8% |
| Quarterback rating | 88.9 |
| Statistics at NFL.com | |
| Statistics at pro-football-reference.com | |
Colin edge Kaepernick (* 3. November 1987 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American American football poker players at the position of quarterback . He played six years for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a free agent . Kaepernick achieved international fame primarily through the protests he initiated against racism in the National Football League .
Early life and career start
Colin Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee to a white 19-year-old . His African American father left his mother before he was born. Since his mother could not care for him, she put him up for adoption . Colin was adopted by the white couple Kaepernick and grew up with their two biological children in Turlock , California .
Kaepernick began playing football at the age of eight and was also a talented basketball and baseball player . He attended John H. Pitman High School in Turlock and practiced all three sports with the school teams there. After he had signed up for the MLB Draft in 2009 , the entry draft for the MLB baseball league , and was only selected in the 43rd round as the 1310th player by the Chicago Cubs , he decided not to sign the contract and to focus on his football career.
He played at the University of Nevada, Reno for the Wolfpacks College Football . Kaepernick quickly established himself as a versatile quarterback who was effective on both running and passing plays : he scored three seasons in a row for 2000 yards and ran 1000 yards, which was an NCAA record.
NFL
Despite his good statistics, Kaepernick was selected in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft as 36th player by the San Francisco 49ers , where he was scheduled by head coach Jim Harbaugh behind starting quarterback Alex Smith . In his 2011 rookie season , Kaepernick was rarely used and only threw five passes.
When Smith was injured the following season, Kaepernick made his first game against the Chicago Bears and played so well (16 of 23 passes arrived, 246 yards of space gained, two touchdowns ) that Harbaugh started him even after Smith's recovery -Let the quarterback continue playing. He immediately led San Francisco into the play-offs and not only won his first play-off game against the Green Bay Packers , but also set a new NFL record for a quarterback with 181 yards run. Even including running backs , he is only the 16th player to have gained at least 180 yards of space in a game in the play-offs. Of the other 15, only running back Keith Lincoln (1963, San Diego Chargers ) achieved a higher average than Kaepernick (11.3) with 15.8 yards per run. As the third quarterback after Otto Graham (1954, 1955) and Jay Cutler , he got two thrown and run touchdowns in a play-off game. The 49ers also won the NFC Championship Game against the Atlanta Falcons , so that Kaepernick was a starting quarterback in the Super Bowl in his first season . They lost the Super Bowl XLVII with 31:34 against the Baltimore Ravens .
In the 2013 season , Kaepernick led his team into the play-offs with a record of twelve wins and four defeats. He scored 21 touchdown passes and threw eight interceptions . In the running game he scored four touchdowns in the regular season . The year before there were five, but in 2012 he only played in seven of his 13 appearances from the start, and in 2013 in all 16 games. In the play-offs, the San Francisco 49ers defeated first the Green Bay Packers and then the Carolina Panthers . In the NFC Championship Game they were defeated by the Seattle Seahawks .
The 2014 season was mediocre for the 49ers and Kaepernick. With 8 wins and 8 losses they missed the play-offs. Kaepernick threw 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions at 3369 yards this season. His quarterback rating was 86.4. In addition, he ran for 669 yards himself.
In the 2015 season , Kaepernick was replaced as starting quarterback by Blaine Gabbert after only two wins in the first eight games of the season . With a record of 5 wins and 11 losses, San Francisco once again missed a place in the play-offs.
Colin Kaepernick's penultimate game took place at the Los Angeles Rams on Christmas Eve 2016, when he was subjected to racist abuse by the hosts' fans. He played his last game so far on January 1, 2017.
After the 2016 season , Kaepernick was released into the Free Agency and has not found a new club since then. The reason for these problems is partly assumed to be his political statements in his professional career, while on the other hand it is argued with his performance. In some cases, Kaepernick quarterbacks were preferred to weaker rated quarterbacks, for example when both quarterbacks of the Washington Redskins were injured during the season in 2018 and they signed Mark Sanchez and Josh Johnson instead of Kaepernick .
On October 15, 2017, Kaepernick took legal action against the NFL for systematic exclusion and lost revenue. In February 2019, an out-of-court settlement was reached, the league paid him less than ten million dollars in compensation.
In his sporting career, Kaepernick - similar to Michael Vick and Russel Wilson - initiated a "revolution" in the central position of the quarterback. He has a balanced body feeling, was able to dodge charging defenders with skill and thus give his pass recipients more time to run free. His unpredictability was his trademark: With his instinct for the situations on the pitch, he was able to change moves spontaneously and run himself despite an agreed passing game variant.
society
On August 14, 2016, ahead of a training game for the San Francisco 49ers, a scandal broke out when 240 military personnel presented a large US flag on the football field and Kaepernick did not rise to the US national anthem , which is played before each game. With his refusal he wanted to protest against racism and police violence against black people in the United States . "I'm not going to stand up and show pride for a flag that stands for a country that oppresses blacks and other colored people." While his team was training, he wore socks on which police officers could be seen as pigs. On April 21, 2018, Kaepernick was recognized by Amnesty International for his conduct as an Ambassador of Conscience . He himself has donated more than a million dollars to charitable organizations.
In September 2018, along with Serena Williams and basketball player LeBron James , Kaepernick became the face of an anniversary campaign by Nike , with which the company celebrated its slogan “Just Do it”. In some cases, critics of Kaepernick burned their Nike sports shoes or cut up Nike socks and posted it on social media. Kaepernick has since become a symbol of the civil rights movement , his red jersey from the first day of protest with the number "7" was displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington, DC as part of a Black Lives Matter exhibition.
P! Nk , Rihanna and Cardi B canceled an appearance at the Super Bowl 2019 in solidarity with Kaepernick and the protests against racism . In 2020, Kaepernick symbolically became an icon and a role model for kneeling demonstrators who took to the streets against racism and police arbitrariness.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Match report at Sports Illustrated ( Memento from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Niners bench Kaepernick for Gabbert (English) nfl.com, accessed on November 6, 2015
- ↑ Jürgen Schmieder: The unpredictable wants to go back. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Colin Kaepernick Is Not Supposed To Be Unemployed. FiveThirtyEight, accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ The NFL has effectively blackballed Colin Kaepernick. Chicago Tribune, accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Colin Kaepernick's biggest problem? Performance, not politics. ESPN, accessed October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Colin Kaepernick: He's so ready for the NFL. ran.de, December 10, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Kaepernick feels excluded. Spiegel-Online.de, accessed on October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ "Behave like an American" rp-online.de, accessed on September 9, 2018
- ^ Racism protest by NFL professional Kaepernick - In the intoxication of the hymn in: Spiegel-Online.de , September 6, 2016
- ↑ Protest on knees: Amnesty honors US football star. ORF, April 22, 2018, accessed on the same day.
- ^ Anniversary campaign by Nike , report on welt.de from September 5, 2018, accessed on September 5, 2018
- ^ Marc Pitzke: Commerce and controversy. In: Spiegel Online. September 6, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .
- ↑ 5 Artists Who Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Ursula Scheer: Film about Colin Kaepernick: Kneel down to get up . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 12, 2020]).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kaepernick, Colin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaepernick, Colin Rand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd November 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States |