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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson told reporters Friday he "wouldn't have any issue at all" with the team signing Colin Kaepernick, according to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio.

"I haven't had the chance to be around Colin too much, but the times I have, he's been great," Wilson said, per ESPN.com's Sheil Kapadia. "He's obviously, first of all, a really, really good football player. He's made a lot of good plays in a lot of big games and done a lot of good things. So I have tons of respect for him in that way.

"And then in terms of everything else he stood for too, I think that he was trying to stand for the right things. He was trying to stand for equality. And so I respect that too."

Kaepernick visited the Seahawks toward the end of May, but the team opted not to sign him following the sitdown.

"[Kaepernick's visit was] another opportunity for us to keep abreast of what's available to our team," head coach Pete Carroll said Friday, according to The MMQB's Albert Breer.

"At this time, we didn't do anything with it, but we know where he is and who he is and we had a chance to understand him much more so," Carroll added, per Kapadia. "He's a starter in this league. And we have a starter. But he's a starter in this league, and I can't imagine that someone won't give him a chance to play."

Kaepernick, 29, has been a free agent since he opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers prior to free agency.

Speculation has swirled that he's remained unsigned because of his public fight against social injustice that's come on the heels of last season's national anthem protest.

"It's frustrating," 49ers linebacker Eli Harold said, per ESPN.com's Nick Wagoner. "It's frustrating for me because I really think it has everything to do with the protest that he did. Some general managers and owners are scared to touch him simply because they're scared to lose revenue, money."