When free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick held a tryout with NFL teams in November, it may not have ended with a contract signing for himself, but it might have benefited a few players around him.
Jordan Veasy, a young wide receiver who was a few years removed from playing for the University of California, was among the players who attended the workout to catch passes for Kaepernick. On Wednesday, the Washington Redskins signed him to their practice squad without a tryout. He says it was the public workout that put him back on the map.
“It helped,” Veasy said, via the Washington Post. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to be a part of it. Just being a part of the history of it, and I knew it was going to help me.”
Veasy first met Kaepernick while taking a class at Cal in which the NFL QB was auditing. After graduating, he has spent his time bouncing around from practice squad to practice squad in the NFL after going undrafted in the 2018 NFL Draft. He said that when he heard that the workout for Kaepernick would be taking place just a couple hours away from his home in Georgia, it made too much sense for him to be there.
In the workout, all eyes were focused on the QB of course, but the young WR impressed as well. On one clip that went viral after showing the supreme arm strength of Kaepernick, it was Veasy who hauled in the deep ball launched downfield.
This Colin Kaepernick deep ball during his workout was beautiful. pic.twitter.com/HOZnclngZZ
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) November 16, 2019
After the workout, Veasy got a call from the Cleveland Browns, according to the Washington Post article, but he left the facility with no contract signed. Later this week, the Redskins gave him a call and offered a spot on their practice squad on the spot; for them, his performance at the workout was all they needed to see.
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