Heidi Russo is the biological mother of National Football League (NFL) player Colin Kaepernick. Russo gave Colin up for adoption soon after giving birth to him.

Teresa and Rick adopted Colin when he was six weeks old from his biological mom Heidi Russo (Colin does not have a relationship with his biological father). Heidi, then 19, raised Colin for a few weeks while looking for the right family to raise him.

Colin Kaepernick's birth mother is named Heidi Russo, as was revealed on the show. It was also revealed that Kaepernick spent five weeks with his birth mother before she put him up for adoption. Russo was 19 years old at the time.

His birth mother, Heidi Russo, who was 19 at the time, put him up for adoption when he was five weeks old. (The identity of his birth father is unknown.) Colin was adopted by Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who had two biological children: a son named Kyle and a daughter named Devon.

Colin Kaepernick's birth mother is a nurse from Thornton Colorado named Heidi Russo. Russo, a Caucasian woman, gave birth to Colin in Milwaukee in 1987 when she was 19 years old. Colin's birth father is an African-American man whose identity is unknown.