Richard Sherman isn’t buying the idea that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains out of a job for strictly football reasons.
Sherman went on ESPN’s First Take Friday morning, and argued that Kaepernick is good enough to be a starter in this league, and the fact he remains a free agent leads Sherman to believe that Kap is being blackballed for his decision to not stand during the national anthem last year.
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“I’m sure he is,” Sherman said. “It’s difficult to see because he’s played at such a high level, and you see guys, quarterbacks, who have never played at a high level being signed by teams. So it’s difficult to understand. Obviously he’s going to be in a backup role at this point. But you see quarterbacks, there was a year Matt Schaub had a pretty rough year and got signed the next year. So it has nothing to do with football. You can see that. They signed guys who have had off years before.”
“You don’t have 32 starting-level quarterbacks in this league,” Sherman said. “You have about eight elites, and then you have the rest of the league. You have about eight, nine elite quarterbacks. You have two or three who have the potential to be elite. And then you have the rest of the teams. So he could play and start on a ton of teams in this league. He would be a starter on probably 20 of the teams in this league. But you’re telling me that you’re going to let other guys, you’re going to pick up some of these other guys and tell me that they’re starters?”
Sherman didn’t buy Michael Irvin’s argument that it’s too early to make the proclamation that Kap is being blackballed, especially with the recent signing of Mark Sanchez, who hasn’t been a productive quarterback in years.
“It’s not early in the process,” Sherman said. “Free agency, it’s not like any other league. You see all that quick action happening, then everybody waits.”