Akiem Hicks cites Mike Glennon to show Colin Kaepernick was blackballed
The NFL has blackballed Colin Kaepernick, and Akiem Hicks is holding his team to account.
Colin Kaepernick should be a starting quarterback for an NFL team.
Yet even the head coaches who have publicly commented Kaepernick should be starting, such as Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks, haven’t pushed for their teams to sign him.
It’s obvious why Kaepernick isn’t in the NFL. He kneeled every week to protest police brutality in the United States. His peaceful protest was met with death threats, insults, and indifference to a grievous human rights issue in this country.
And Kaepernick has paid for his activism with his career, which the NFL admitted by paying a settlement to Kaepernick and former San Francisco 49ers teammate Eric Reid.
Kaepernick is on the minds of NFL fans this week after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, suffered when a police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes.
Several teams have avoided signing Kaepernick despite the former NFC Champion-winning quarterback being a clear upgrade. One of those teams is (and was) the Chicago Bears, and superstar defensive lineman Akiem Hicks won’t let his team forget the role they’ve played in blackballing a quarterback who once led the NFL in adjusted yards per pass attempt.
Akiem Hicks says it's clear to him that Colin Kaepernick lost his career because of kneeing then drops a bomb in the middle of the conversation: "We signed Mike Glennon."
— Jason Lieser (@JasonLieser) June 3, 2020
By every statistical measure, Kaepernick is a superior quarterback to Mike Glennon. He’s easily a better player than Mitchell Trubisky, too. New quarterback Nick Foles is both more expensive and arguably worse than Kaepernick.
Naming Glennon is simplistic but effective. It directly shows the Bears could have signed a qualified man with exemplary leadership skills and work ethic to lead their organization. Instead, they chose Glennon, joining 31 other organizations as cowardly in the face of fighting social injustice by blackballing Kaepernick.
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NFL players and fans are tired of the blatant lies such as “he wasn’t good enough” or “he’s a distraction” or “he isn’t a system fit.” They know the truth, and, as Hicks shows, they are willing to speak loudly on it. Many of them, such as Kenny Stills, always have been.