Colin Kaepernick is waking up at 3:30am every morning to make sure he is still in NFL shape.
The 36-year-old quarterback has not played a down since his last appearance for the San Francisco 49ers in January 2017.
He left the league after kneeling for the national anthem late in his NFL career – a move which sparked a wave of protests against systemic racism.
Kaepernick has been working as a social activist with his Know Your Rights Camp and Kaepernick Publishing company.
The signal-caller is desperate to return to the field but made an incredible revelation at the WSJ Tech Live Conference in California.
He says he has not watched an NFL game for eight years.
“I still check everybody’s stats,” Kaepernick told the Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton during the conference.
“It also informs who my agent reaches out to, but I still …