On Tuesday, that dream came true for Niners star Colin Kaepernick. Hot off a record-breaking game against Green Bay last weekend, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is gracing the cover of SI this week.
They also had a little fun with the cover. In the lower left corner, they cut out a picture of a shouting coach Jim Harbaugh and wrote the caption, "Shout it from the mountaintop, Jim -- You were dead on about Colin Kaepernick!"