evidence: It’s imperative to cut through the noise surrounding Colin Kaepernick’s current unemployment, and nothing is noisier than the idea that NFL teams will not sign Kaepernick because he is a "distraction." It’s football’s laziest cliché, a catchall for anything or anyone a team might not like. [...] As of this writing, we’re all guessing about why Kaepernick doesn’t have a job. We could dress that up with words such as "hypothesize" and "conjecture," but all anyone can do is try to figure out why someone obviously good enough to play in the NFL, at its scarcest position, hasn’t received a substantive phone call from a general manager. There’s enough circumstantial evidence to arrive at any conclusion, whether or not one set his or her GPS to that destination. [...] Kaepernick is good enough to play quarterback in the NFL. Few are run out of the league after posting a 4-to-1 touchdown-interception ratio with someone like Jeremy Kerley as his top receiving threat. Yet none of us are sure he ever will take the field again. That wouldn’t be "the breaks." That would be a league that uses the power of nonguaranteed contracts to not only maintain the status quo, but enforce it. That would be a league whose players deal with the specter of the police every day, but stands in solidarity with those who want to make their players’ lives more difficult than they should be.