Kaepernick will reach hero status, Favre feels

Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre feels Colin Kaepernick will eventually have “hero status” like legendary Pat Tillman.

Tillman was a safety for the Arizona Cardinals who left the NFL after the 2001 season to join the Army. He was killed at age 27 by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004.

Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since 2016, when he began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

“I can only think of — right off the top of my head, Pat Tillman’s another guy who did something similar, and we regard him as a hero,” Favre told TMZ Sports. “So I’d assume that hero status will be stamped with Kaepernick as well.”

Now 32, the former 49ers quarterback’s stands against racial injustice and lack of willingness to quit kneeling have played a part in why he has remained unsigned.

“It’s not easy for a guy his age ... to stop something that you’ve always dreamed of doing, and put it on hold — maybe forever — for something that you believe in,” Favre said.