And even after a hot finish inflated the number to 54.2 percent, they still finished just 17th.. Kaepernick’s unemployment has prompted some players and observers to say he is being blackballed by NFL owners because of his refusal to stand during the national anthem during the 2016 season as a protest to racial injustice and the oppression of people of color in the United States.. The underlying snake in the grass with this whole story. But Hodges’s story was revived…