Colin Kaepernick’s allegation that the NFL colluded to deny him a contract as punishment for his lead role in player protests will get a formal hearing after an arbitrator denied the league’s request for a summary judgment.
Kaepernick’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, tweeted out a photo of the letter received from arbitrator Stephen Burbank on Thursday. ESPN reports that the league declined to comment.
The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who first took a knee during a pregame national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality, found himself without a team when he entered free agency after the season.
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