49ers place Kaepernick on IR

Kaepernick told the Sacramento Bee a different story from what the injury report said, however, as he claimed he initially suffered his injury in the 49ers Week 4 loss to the Green Bay Packers. After eight starts he was replaced as San Francisco’s starter by Blaine Gabbert. “We’re going to continue with Blaine”, Tomsula said. Quarterback Dylan Thompson has been promoted to the active roster from the team’s practice squad.

Now the 49ers go into the offseason knowing Kaepernick is due $16.7 million next season and $19.3 million the season after that. He is not the type of player that can win games with his arm like they did and the 49ers did not do him any favors by not surrounding him with free agent talent.

They put Kaepernick on IR today which could Mark the end of his career as quarterback of the 49ers. The prevailing thought was Kap had a chance to regain the starting gig. Kaepernick has rushed for 1,834 yards and 11 touchdowns in 57 regular-season games, ranking first (641 in 2014) and third (524 in 2013) on the franchise’s list of single-season yards rushing by a quarterback.

Yes, this is all comparable to what happened with Jim Harbaugh last season – the whispers, the weird contractual dance, the 49ers squeezing and leaking so that Harbaugh and Kaepernick finally just wanted to get the hell out.

Kapernick has struggled for San Francisco this season, posting a 78.5 passer rating, the worst of his career.

Thompson, undrafted out of SC, completed 60 percent of his passes (24-of-40) for 277 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions in the exhibition season. But Kaepernick was not listed on an injury report until after the Niners’ October 22 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, in which he was sacked six times, and in that case, it was because of a right hand injury.