Carroll: 'Opportunity is still open' for Kaepernick to join Seahawks

Head coach Pete Carroll said he hasn't closed the door on Colin Kaepernick potentially joining the Seattle Seahawks.

Seattle had scheduled a workout with the free-agent quarterback last week, but postponed that meeting, reportedly due in part to Kaepernick's refusal to stop kneeling during the national anthem before games. The Seahawks then quickly pivoted and signed Stephen Morris last Friday.

There's still a chance Kaepernick could join the Seakawks, however.

"We're still looking at all of our options and the QB thing is important to us," Carroll said on Sports Radio KJR on Thursday. "We're trying to figure it out, we just want to work to be as competitive as we can and whether that factors in or not we'll find out.

"But the discussion and the opportunity is still open as (general manager John Schneider) stated earlier on. So we'll see how that goes."

Asked directly whether kneeling for the anthem would preclude the Seahawks from signing Kaepernick, Carroll said, "I'm not going there."