Colin Kaepernick will finally get a chance to play in a game situation, but not until the third week of preseason.
According to Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area, the team will hold Kaepernick out of the second preseason game against Denver and aim to get him into the third preseason game against Green Bay on Aug. 26.
“We have a plan for him going forward,” coach Chip Kelly said. “They’re easing him back into throwing right now. In talking to him, he said he feels really good about it. But we don’t want to throw him back out there and have a setback right now.
“As we said before, from what we understand, it’s not a long-term thing. He’ll throw a little more today and see how he feels and continue to progress him and hopefully we can get him back full next week.”
Kaepernick was being eased back into work on Wednesday, not having practiced since Aug. 10 with what has been characterized as a “dead arm.” The issue has almost certainly cost him whatever chance he had of beating Blaine Gabbert out for the starting job.
