After an 8-year hiatus, Colin Kaepernick expressed his desire to return to the NFL. It became a huge deal after he spoke to SKY Sports about his return. The quarterback expressed a willingness to participate in flag football in the LA28. More so, he thinks he can return to the NFL and help teams win championship games.

John Harbaugh, his former 49ers coach, has been supporting the QB ever since the collusion began against him. He went as far as to offer him a job on the Chargers roster. However, Harbaugh doesn’t need a new quarterback. Instead, he urged Kaepernick to join the Bolts squad as a coach. Is it viable for Kaepernick to play in the league again? Hosts of PFT don’t think so.

“Maybe that’s something that happens down the road,” said Chris Simms on NFL on NBC. “He’s [Kaepernick] not doing himself any favors by continuing to talk about ‘he wants to play and do all that.’ He’s gotten to the point now where it’s like, people think you’re delusional for continuing to say that. You got to stop doing that.”

Simms, the former NFL QB, retired in 2009, joked about his own comeback, saying “Can I get another chance?” The NFL has had a weird relationship with Colin Kaepernick ever since he sparked the protests in the league and basically got blackballed for it. The point is that Kaepernick has been controversial and is about to turn 37.

Not many teams will be interested in giving him a job, firstly due to his long hiatus and secondly because of all the controversy he’s garnered by kneeling during the national anthem. At this point, Chris Simms thinks that Kaepernick returning to the league as a Chargers coaching staff might help revive his career.

“I think he’s got all the leadership ability and communication ability to be a really good football coach and he knows how to throw the ball and he’s got pretty damn good mechanics and played in some big-time football games. So, I certainly think there’s value he could add as a coach and a quarterback coach and all of that. He just got to be willing to take that career path as we know and be a little bit of a bottom feeder,” shared Simms later.

Speaking of big time football games, Kaepernick helped Harbaugh on his Super Bowl XLVII run against the Baltimore Ravens back in 2013, but that’s in the past now. As established earlier, Kaepernick isn’t interested in a coaching job and Coach Harbaugh isn’t interested in hiring a new quarterback.

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The fact that Harbaugh offered him a coaching job means that he’s not interested in him as a quarterback. However, Kaepernick thinks he can change the tides of the NFL and convince teams to be their new QB. “We’re still training, still pushing,” Kaepernick told Sky Sports. “So, hopefully. We’ve just got to get one of these team owners to open up.”

If Kaepernick’s hopes were already dwindling, Mike Florio made sure to rub some salt in the wounds and flatly said that Harbaugh was not interested in him as a QB. “Yesterday, Harbaugh said that he’s talked to Kaepernick about joining the Chargers not as a player but as a member of the coaching staff, which means Chris [Simms], even though Harbaugh didn’t say it, he’s not interested in him as a player.”

The discrepancy in Harbaugh and Kaepernick’s thought process became apparent when the Chargers HC admitted that he spoke to him in January regarding a coaching spot but hasn’t heard back from him since. “Yeah, we talked a little bit about it,” Harbaugh said. “He’s considering it. He was out of the country. He said he was going to get back to me. We haven’t reconnected since then. That was early, early in the year.”

Kaepernick got blackballed from the league for his stance as a civil rights activist. The Chargers coach mentioned that he sees Kaepernick as a “hero” and that he decides to “choose “what path he takes.” Do you think Kaepernick will take the Bolts’ coaching job?