It sure as heck looks like a stunt/disingenuous.
The league office, not a team, sets it up in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion. Non-negotiable time and place, scheduled precipitously so some teams can't even arrange to have their desired personnel executives present, refuse to tell Kaep which teams will attend, and Kaep does not even know who the receivers are who he will be throwing to.
The league could have offered to organize a workout for Kaep in the offseason. They did not. The league could have done it after week 3 or 4 when half a dozen teams had already lost their starting QB. They did not. They could have done it immediately after the trade deadline by which time unsigned free agents were the only source of potential QB replacements (and some teams had already started 3 different QBs). They did not.
So why now? What changed? And what's the urgency?
Y'all like coincidences? Here's a doozy -- within 24 hours of this Kaep story, there was another NFL story breaking, about how the CBA negotiations were going poorly and union reps were reminding players to save their money in anticipation of a work stoppage next year.
I hypothesize that amongst the list of player/union goals for the next CBA is better protection against (or better recompense for) teams colluding/blackballing players. The league wants to eliminate that from the union's list of demands without actually giving up anything in the CBA, and thinks if Kaep gets onto a roster now then by next summer most players won't see collusion/blackballing as an issue big enough to strike over.
Maybe it's purely random that those stories came out on back-to-back days. I dunno.
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