Harbaugh says Kaepernick will not be a player or coach with the Chargers this season
Associated PressEL SEGUNDO, Calif. — If Colin Kaepernick wants to join the Los Angeles Chargers, it will not be until next year at the earliest. Harbaugh — who coached Kaepernick in San Francisco from 2011 through ’14 — told USA Today Sports earlier this week that he reached out to Kaepernick about joining his Chargers’ staff shortly after being named coach on Jan. 24. Harbaugh said on Thursday that it wasn’t the first time he has touched base with Kaepernick about coaching, and that he mentioned it a couple times when he was the coach at Michigan. Just the respect that I have for the football mind he has and the football man that he is,” said Harbaugh when asked what made him think Kaepernick would make a good coach. “It’s something I’ve trained my whole life for, so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, a major accomplishment for me,” Kaepernick said.