Colin Kaepernick will play for the San Francisco 49ers no more

November 8, 2015; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) stands on the sideline against the Atlanta Falcons during the second quarter at Levi

Out of dead nowhere, the San Francisco 49ers put quarterback on season-ending injured reserve Saturday. Dylan Thompson, a quarterback on the practice squad, was then promoted to the active roster. Kaepernick was listed on the team’s Week 11 injury report as probable with a left shoulder injury.

He originally injured the shoulder in Week 4, but started the next four games with the inury. The quarterback was benched in Week 9 in favor of because head coach Jim Tomsula wanted him to “take a step back and breathe.” That made most of us believe that Kaepernick would have a chance to come back and fight for his job.

But then the 49ers won with Blane Gabbert as their starting quarterback letting them know just how bad Kaepernick is. So instead of putting the proverbial writting on the wall, the 49ers put the graffiti on the wall by shutting Kaepernick down. The deal he signed in 2014 allows the 49ers to walk away from it and his $13.9 million salary for 2016 with no salary-cap complications.

That in itself tells us all that the 49ers never put their entire trust in him in the first place. When two of his best targets from his Super Bowl season (Michael Crabtree and Vernon Davis) couldn’t wait to get away from him and bad things to say about him, there’s a problem. As a pocket passer, Kapernick just didn’t have the accuracy to hit his targets and that’s when he did see them.