A Profile On Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick no.7
6'5''
233 lbs.

  He Ran a 4.53 40 yard dash and scored a 37 on the Wonderlic test (50 is a perfect score)
And those two stats really personify Kaep, things you don't usually hear together, athletic yet not a blithering fool like some athletes, the big man on campus, yet still humble.
A woman came into a sporting goods store that Kap was working in, and asked what number the quarterback for Nevada's wolf pack wore.
Kap responded telling her he was pretty sure it was 10 and he would be happy to find one for her.


  A reporter asked his coach at Nevada about his tattoos and he told them that he was a kid with a pet tortoise who was on the honor roll, if they were looking for a story about a kid who escaped the gang life then they needed to look somewhere else.
Which, by the way, his tattoos are all Biblical or faith related, including a tattoo of the word faith across his bicep, and tattoos of Psalms 27:3 and 19:39, as he is a devout Christian.


And his 120 pound tortoise? His name is Sammy.


  Now on the football field, his intelligence and leadership show, as do his athletic skills, he was only the fifth player to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season and became the first player to do that in back to back seasons, in his Sophomore and Junior years at Nevada. He was also part of the first trio of players to rush for 1,000 yards on the same team in the same year.
Then in his senior year he once again passed for over 2,000 yards and ran for over 1,000 yards, and became the first, and currently only, Division I College Football player to pass for over 10,000 yards and run for over 4,000 yards in a career.

 
  On the field he is a great leader, as was evident in his first NFL preseason game where he was on the 49ers sideline trying to fire up his teammates to rally against a much better Saints team.
The other thing I noticed is his odd throwing motion gives him a quicker release then most Quarterback, without diminishing his throwing power, and he has great speed and decision making abilities when he takes off with the football.

All and all I think Colin Kaepernick has all the intangibles and tangibles to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

Re-Formatted on 1/29/13