As the 2018 NFL season quickly approaches, former San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick still hasn’t found a new team.

That’s in large part because of him kneeling during the national anthem to draw attention to issues affecting African-Americans in this country.

This week, Georgia legend Herschel Walker — who has just been named to president Donald Trump’s Fitness Council — spoke with TMZ, saying he supports Kaepernick’s protests, but also understands why NFL teams don’t want to hire him:

“I own a chicken company,” Walker says in the video. “If the guy that I hire don’t want to do what I ask him to do, why do I hire him? And I think that’s the problem right there, you know.”

Walker is right — Kaepernick has every right to protest, but NFL teams also don’t have to hire him to play if they don’t like the way he does it. For now, it appears he won’t be back in the league this fall.