Colin Rand Kaepernick was born on the 3rd November, 1987 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is a professional football player who plays in the position of quarterback in the San Francisco 49ers team in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick has been accumulating his net worth as a professional player since 2011.
How rich is this professional quarterback? Reportedly, Colin Kaepernick’s net worth is as much as $16 million although he signed a six-year contract for $114 million with the San Francisco 49ers in 2011. It is also important to mention that he received a $12.3 million signing-on bonus, and so earns $19 million annually not to count other bonuses and endorsement deals.
Colin Kaepernick Net Worth $16 Million
To begin with, his biological mother, Heidi Russo, was single and poor at the time she gave birth to Colin. Her decision was to put the baby up for adoption, and he was adopted by Teresa and Rick Kaepernick and raised in their family with two other children. Being eight years old he started to play football. Later, he successfully joined baseball and basketball teams. Even though the best results Colin achieved where while playing baseball, he wanted to play only football. He rejected several scholarships and kept on training until the University of Nevada offered him a place in the Nevada Wolf Pack football program.
Colin Kaepernick played college football for four years during which he is listed as receiving the following football awards: the Walter Camp Award, the Unitas Award, the Maxwell Award, the Paul Hornung Award, the Davey O’Brien Award and the Manning Award. Unsurprisingly, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the Humanitarian Bowl 2008 and was titled the Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year twice. With his hardest efforts, he made his dream come true, as he managed not only to play football but became one of the best players in college league.
In the NFL draft of 2011 he was picked 36th in the 2nd round by the San Francisco 49ers team, in which he plays up until now. During his professional career he has set several NFL records including 181 rushing yards in a post-season game by a quarterback, 58 yard run by a quarterback in a post-season game and others. More, he became the NFC Champion with the team in 2012 and twice received USA Today All-Joe Team title. Colin Kaepernick was ranked to be the 81st in the Top 100 Players in 2013 and 2014. In fact, being one of the best players in the league adds much financially to the total size of Colin Kaepernick’s net worth.
In his personal life, Colin Kaepernick was raised in Christian household, and while still studying at college he attended a Baptist church and was baptized a Methodist. He is known to have multiple tattoos related to religion, for example, praying hands, cross featuring Jesus, angels are surrounded by phrases from the Bible like “To God The Glory”, “God Will Guide Me”, “Heaven Sent” and etc.
Concerning the private life of Colin Kaepernick, apparently he is currently dating Brittany Renner. Rumours are flying that she is pregnant with their first child though the couple denies this. Time will show the truth.
