The Colin Kaepernick-Jim Harbaugh connection is still going strong.
Michigan football announced Wednesday that the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who played under Harbaugh for four seasons, will serve as the program’s honorary captain for its Maize and Blue spring game on Saturday.
Per MLive, Kaepernick has been on hand in Ann Arbor for spring practice all week.
It has been six years since Kaepernick was last on an NFL field as a player. In the time since, he has been among the most controversial figures in sports for his protests against racial inequality in the United States. His public profile has continued to rise, with a grievance privately settled in 2019, but his football career has yet to progress past the level of workouts and rumors.
Harbaugh has spoken supportively of his former quarterback in the past, saying Kaepernick was “on the right side” of social justice amid the protests against the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
From MLive:
“You got to listen to people…