Colin Kaepernick was described as being on "an island" in the San Francisco 49ers' locker room in a Fox Sports report over the weekend, after ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the usually solitary Kaepernick had stopped wearing his ever-present headphones in the lunchroom and started engaging with teammates.

Kaepernick was asked if he believes someone in the organization is leaking reports about him to make him the scapegoat for their struggles.

"I really hope not," he said Wednesday. "For me, I give everything I can to this organization. I give everything I can to my teammates to try to help us win, to try to help us be better moving forward."

Jim Tomsula disputed the characterization, as did a few teammates.

"First of all," said receiver Torrey Smith, "our locker room is straight. We need each other, now more than ever ... Kap isn't on a damn island."

Kaepernick was asked if the national reports were weighing on him.

"No, reports don't bother me," he said. "My relationship with my teammates is great. That's all I'm worried about. What the perspective is outside the locker room really has nothing to do with me or this team.

"I have a great relationship with my teammates. To me, that's the situation that I don't know what the agenda is saying that [I'm on an island], or what the credibility of that source is. I have a great relationship with my teammates and I'll leave it at that."