Colin Kaepernick has launched a $30 million lawsuit alleging that the NFL owners colluded to deny him employment. He also aims to terminate the current NFL collective bargaining agreement with the players. This will be very much an uphill fight because his lawyers will have to provide proof of collusion in the form of documents and/or witnesses, not simply evidence that he is much better than many NFL QBs, and, even then, his lawyers will have to out-argue the very highly paid NFL lawyers.

Criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, Kaepernick’s lawyer, confirmed the news in a statement later on Sunday. Gregaros said the suit was only filed “after pursuing every possible avenue with all NFL teams and their executives.”
This lawsuit could literally be a game-changer, not just for Kaepernick, but for the labor rights of all NFL players. He is hoping to trigger termination of the currentcollective bargaining agreement (CBA), which was signed on 2011 and is set to expire in 2021, by proving that the NFL-at-large conspired to keep him out of the league.

The CBA has been widely panned because it gives management, particularly NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, an unwieldy amount of power. If Kaepernick is successful in his suit, it would force NFL owners back to the table in 2018 — and give the NFL players a more powerful bargaining position than they’ve had in recent memory.
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