Colin Kaepernick
Sign in to saveAmerican football player (born 1987)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1987-11-03
- Works
- 6
Top works
- We Are Free, You and Me
- Our History Has Always Been Contraband
- Colin Kaepernick
- Different
- Abolition for the People
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Film & TV
Acting · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and football quarterback who is a free agent. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League.
Known for
- Evolution of the Black Quarterback — Self2024
- Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL — Self - San Francisco 49ers Quarterback (archive footage)2022
- Colin in Black and White — Narrator (voice)2021
- The Price of Protest — Self (archive footage)2019
- United We Stand: The Ali Summit — archival footage2018
- Shut Up and Dribble — Self (archive footage)2018
- Marvel & ESPN Films Present: 1 of 1 - Genesis — Self2015
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 18
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,536x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,493x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias
· 1994 · cited 14,245x
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Key facts
- Position
- Quarterback
- Born
- ( 1987-11-03 ) November 3, 1987 (age 38) , Milwaukee , Wisconsin, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
- Listed weight
- 230 lb (104 kg)
- High school
- Pitman ( Turlock, California )
- College
- Nevada (2006–2010)
- Nfl draft
- 2011 : 2nd round, 36th overall pick
- Passing attempts
- Passing attempts 1,692
- Passing completions
- 1,011
- Completion percentage
- 59.8%
- Td int
- 72–30
- Passing yards
- 12,271
- Rushing yards
- 2,300
Key dates
- Born
- 3 November 1987
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Colin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Award
- Time 100
- Sport
- baseball
- Position played
- quarterback
Article
Colin Rand Kaepernick (/ˈkæpərnɪk/ KAP-ər-nik; born November 3, 1987) is an American civil rights activist and former professional football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. In 2016, he gained national attention for kneeling during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.
Kaepernick played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack, twice winning Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year. Selected by the 49ers in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft, Kaepernick began his professional career as a backup to Alex Smith. He became the 49ers' starter in the middle of the 2012 season after Smith was injured and led the team to Super Bowl XLVII, the franchise's first appearance since 1994. In his first full season as the starter the following year, Kaepernick helped the 49ers reach the NFC Championship Game. Over the next three seasons, Kaepernick lost and won back his starting quarterback job, with the 49ers missing the playoffs each year.
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Categories
1987 births21st-century African-American sportsmen21st-century American sportsmenActivists for African-American civil rightsActivists from CaliforniaAfrican-American civil rights activistsAmerican adopteesAmerican football quarterbacksAmerican human rights activistsAmerican people of Ghanaian descentAmerican people of Italian descentAmerican people of Ivorian descent