Kaepernick, while not a great QB, is clearly better than most teams backups. Performance-wise he deserves to be on somebody's team. Distraction-wise, almost all of the distraction was caused by the media. In the NFL, if a streaker gets on the field trying to seek attention, they go to commercial break and don't give in to the attention. It should have been a 1-2 week talking point. They could have just ignored it or not mentioned it and no one would care, but instead they drove it into the ground when everyone was already sick of it. They politicized the sport and caused viewership to go down, and they used his cause as a point to ignite controversy, not because they care, but because they just want to rile people up to see if it attracts attention.