Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still out of a job after nearly four years of being away from the game of football.

However, while he’s still entertaining offers to lead an football team’s offense, his ‘exorbitant’ demands were promptly rejected by the revived XFL league, who also requires that all players stand for the National Anthem.

XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck said they submitted an offer to Kaepernick’s agent to see if he’d be interested. While he was definitely interested, his salary requests were simply over-the-top.

“We gave it some thought,” Luck said about asking Kaepernick to play. “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 [Kaepernick’s] representative and the salary requirements that were broached in that conversation were exorbitant and certainly out of our range,” he stated.

In 2016, Kaepernick began a trend across the NFL of kneeling for the National Anthem, protesting “police brutality” and other “injustices,” according to the former 49ers quarterback.

The XFL, however, isn’t allowing this form of protest.

“Players have numerous opportunities to express themselves with all the platforms that exist today,” Luck said of the rule that mandates players stand for the National Anthem. “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.”