Last week, Colin Kaepernick reversed his course and significantly increased the number of words he used to respond to interview questions.
If only he could do that with his contract.
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Businessinsider.com reported Wednesday that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is watching his seven-year, $126 million contract that he signed over the summer begin to devalue. The news reiterates what several news outlets reported when Kaepernick signed his deal.
Kaepernick earned $645,000 in salary in 2014 but had a $12.3 million signing bonus, Businessinsider.com reported. If he remains on the roster through April 1, 2015, he was scheduled to make $12.4 million. But that included the stipulation that he take 80 percent of the snaps - which he did - and that either the 49ers appear in the Super Bowl or Kaepernick is named first- or second-team All-Pro, as reported last summer by Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com.
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Neither of those scenarios is going to happen.
That means that Kaepernick's salary for 2015 now will be $10.4 million. And that's if the 49ers keep him on the roster after April 1. With speculation looming over coach Jim Harbaugh's departure, it is not guaranteed that Kaepernick would remain the team's quarterback next season.
If the 49ers cut him, then his seven-year, $126 million deal would turn out to be a one-year, $13 million deal -- a difference of $113 million.
Kaepernick will continue to lose $2 million per year off his base salary if he fails to meet the stipulations of the contract concerning snaps and a Super Bowl appearance or All-Pro recognition, profootballtalk.nbcsports.com added.
Kaepernick currently is No. 22 in quarterback rating. His current rating of 84.9 is 6.7 points lower than his 2013 rating of 91.6 and 13.4 points lower than his 98.3 rating, in which he took the 49ers to the Super Bowl.
Businessinsider.com predicts that Kaepernick will return in 2015 but could be cut before April 1, 2016. The 49ers would not owe him any compensation. The report added that Kaepernick's $126 million deal would end up as a two-year deal with $25.9 million - although even that figure is suspect.
The 49ers quarterback earned $13 million for this season, but because he has lost the $2 million for failing to complete the stipulations of the contract this season, he is scheduled to make only $10.4 million in 2015 for a grand total of $23.4 million over two years. Businessinsider.com did not explain how it came up with the $25.9 million figure.
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