Surprise! Not only was Elway being misleading, he was also admitting to complicity:
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-elway-blames-colin-k...
> Not that it was hard to find: you can easily fire up a search engine and figure out that Elway talked to the 49ers about trading for Kaepernick, before the quarterback was released, back in April of 2016. [...]
> In other words, this is also not great for Elway [...] because it creates a pretty clear juxtaposition: the Broncos were interested in Kap before he began to protest and not so much after he began to protest.