Colin Kaepernick
- San Francisco 49ers (2011 -present)
- NFL quarterback record for erlaufene yards (181 ) in a game
Colin Kaepernick Rand (born 3 November 1987 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American professional American football player at the position of quarterback. He plays for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League ( NFL).
Career
Kaepernick grew up as an adopted child in California and played at the University of Nevada, Reno for the local Wolfpack College Football Team. Quickly Kaepernick established as a versatile quarterback, the run - as was also effective at passing trains both: he scored three consecutive seasons passes for 2000 yards and 1000 yards erlief what an NCAA record showed.
NFL
Despite his statistics Kaepernick in the NFL Draft in 2011 49ers selected in the second round as 36 players from the San Francisco, where einplante him head coach Jim Harbaugh after starting quarterback Alex Smith. In his rookie season, Kaepernick was rarely used and threw only five passes.
When Smith injured in the ensuing season, Kaepernick made against the Chicago Bears his first game from the beginning and played so well ( 16 of 23 passports arrived, 246 Yards space gain, two touchdowns ) that Harbaugh him even after Smith 's recovery as a starting - quarterback to keep playing. Right away he led San Francisco in the playoffs and not only won his first playoff game against the Green Bay Packers, but also provided with 181 yards erlaufenen a new NFL record for a quarterback on. Taken together with self running backs he is only the 16th player to at least 180 yards erlief space gain in the play-offs in a game. Of the other 15 only running back Keith Lincoln (1963, San Diego Chargers ) scored with 15.8 yards per run a higher average than Kaepernick ( 11.3 ). As a third quarterback after Otto Graham (1954, 1955) and Jay Cutler he scored two touchdowns thrown and erlaufene in a play-off game.
The following season, Kaepernick led his team with a record of twelve wins and four defeats in the play-offs. He scored 21 touchdown passes and threw eight interceptions. In the running game he scored four touchdowns during the regular season. The year before, there were five, but he played in 2012 and only seven of its 13 missions from the beginning, 2013, in all 16 games.