What It Means:

Due $16.9 million in salary and bonuses, Kaepernick should theoretically want to stay in San Francisco because that's the only way he would earn that much money. In December, national reports from both ESPN and NFL Network had Kaepernick preparing to opt out, but that was before head coach Kyle Shanahan was hired.

Kaepernick's Passing Net Expected Points per drop back ranked 28th among the 39 quarterbacks to drop back 100 times this year.