Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid Settled With the NFL
Stunner on a Friday afternoon!
Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, who had filed a collusion lawsuit against the NFL, reached a settlement out of court.
A joint statement was released today, reading as such:
— Mark Geragos (@markgeragos) February 15, 2019
That’s from Kaepernick’s lawyer. The NFL shared the same statement on the official league website.
Couple of things to consider here:
- settling makes Eric Reid look like a hypocrite, considering that he called Malcolm Jenkins a “sellout” for accepting league money a while back, causing a divide in the Players Coalition
- Kaepernick also looks like a sellout for not riding this thing out to the end (assuming he just took a huge amount of hush money here).
- Reid just signed a 22 million dollar deal with the Panthers, so his case is weakened.
- If the NFL was willing to settle out of court, then there was probably enough evidence to hurt their chances in court
- Kaepernick said repeatedly that his protest wasn’t an affront to the military or United States veterans. He began taking a knee SPECIFICALLY out of respect to veterans. He was originally sitting on the bench during the anthem.
- I’m glad this thing is finally over.
The NFL Players Association also shared a statement, after the jump:
— NFLPA (@NFLPA) February 15, 2019
I’m sure the settlement terms will be leaked at some point. I also think many social justice folks and Kap supporters will be disappointed with how this thing ended.