According to a report from Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk, Colin Kaepernick will arrange for his own receivers to attend his workout today in Atlanta, after the league wouldn’t reveal to him which receivers they would have attend the event.
It’s unclear if Kaepernick found adequate receivers locally, or if he will pay to fly in people to catch passes from him. Florio just wrote that Kaepernick had made “arrangements” for receivers to attend.
This is just a bit more evidence that this entire thing is, sadly, a sham. The league scheduled this for a Saturday, when most pro scouts are watching college games, and actual coaching staffs will be prepping for their games on Sunday.
UPDATE: The workout has now been moved. Get latest updates here.
The league won’t reveal what teams are in attendance. They won’t reveal who from the teams will be there.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that the workout was organized entirely by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Jay-Z, who has a business partnership with the league. Both Goodell and Jay-Z felt that they suffered personally from the way Kaepernick had been locked out of the league, and wanted to remedy that with a public tryout.
So they organized … this. Whatever this is. It sure doesn’t feel like an earnest attempt to let Kaepernick show off what he’s capable of. It feels a lot more like, as Florio called it, a dog-and-pony show.
