No one is suggesting that Kaepernick is the same player he was that day, a player who hasn’t been allowed to play since 2016. But you hear the same hoo-haw every time there is some kind of quarterback opening in the NFL. You hear at warp speed that, hey, he is 31 and hasn’t played in three years. And he forgot how to throw out of the pocket. And he’s 31. Right. Got it. But Andrew Luck, who retired on his own, who wasn’t retired by his own league the way Kaepernick was, is 29 years old. Say in two years Luck’s body has healed up enough that he wants to come out of retirement and come back to being an NFL quarterback. Are teams going to back away from him because he’s 31 and just missed two seasons?