Technically you're correct but he did play in 3 games his rookie season and then took over in game 10 of his second season after the Rams knocked out Alex Smith. He played in 16 games over his first two seasons. Obviously the guy needed more seasoning.
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Sunday Morning QB: Once a budding star, 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick sees rest of NFL passing him by
Gary Myers/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Colin Kaepernick was supposed to be the next big thing in the NFL, but now he’s just another in a string of struggling quarterbacks the Giants are facing to turn their season around.
After losing to Tony Romo and Matt Ryan in the first two weeks, the Giants have defeated Kirk Cousins and Tyrod Taylor and Sunday night face Kaepernick. In San Francisco’s 47-7 loss to the Cardinals two weeks ago, Kaepernick’s first and fourth passes were intercepted and returned for touchdowns.
After leading the 49ers to the Super Bowl and nearly beating the Ravens following the 2012 season, Kaepernick made it to the NFC title game the next year and lost to Seattle. In each game, he was throwing into the end zone on the 49ers final play with a chance to win. He was incomplete against the Ravens and picked off by Seattle.
Last year, the Niners fell to 8-8 amid season-long speculation — which turned out to be true — that Jim Harbaugh was on his way out. Kaepernick began to regress under Harbaugh, who drafted him and is a terrific quarterback teacher, even though his numbers were respectable: 19 TDs, 10 INTs and a career high 3,369 yards.
After defeating the Vikings in the season opener this year, the 49ers lost to the Steelers and Cardinals on the road (they were outscored, 90-25) and played the Packers tough last week at home, limiting Aaron Rodgers to 17 points. But Kaepernick’s offense produced just three. For the season, he has two TDs and five INTs. Coach Jim Tomsula encouraged him not to play tentative and go out and make plays.
What’s happened to him?
Defenses have simply caught up to read-option quarterbacks and forced them to win games from the pocket. Russell Wilson can do that. Robert Griffin III was so bad he got beat out by Cousins. And now Kaepernick, still the strongest running quarterback in the league, has transitioned from a franchise quarterback into a quarterback who might not be with the franchise much longer.
“With the new-wave quarterbacks, if you design the offense to run from the pocket, most of them are going to fail,” one source said. “You got to get them on the perimeter for them to be effective. It’s a new wave in terms of what the colleges are producing. The NFL hasn’t been able to harness how to get them to play with that kind of production at the professional level.”
If Harbaugh had remained rather than being run out of town by management back to his alma mater at Michigan, then Kaepernick would have had a better chance of getting straightened out.
Instead, he looks lost.
He signed a six-year $114 million contract last year that is structured to allow the 49ers to get out without much of a financial burden.
“When he was having success, he was able to do what he does best — 1-2, throw,” the source said. “When nobody was open he would take off and make plays with his feet. Teams didn’t know how to defend him. They were more afraid of his feet than his arm and his ability to make plays in the pocket. So, they changed how they play him. Now they force him to throw and keep him in the pocket. Before, he knew the defenses better than they knew him. Now they know him better than he knows them.”
The Giants’ rejuvenated defense is catching Kaepernick with his arrow pointing down with no guarantee it will ever point up again.
