NFL Owners Reportedly Voting on Resolution to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minority Head Coaches and General Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Tomlin is one of only three NFL head coaches after the 1919 season.
The Rooney Rule — which was supposed to inspire National Football League teams to hire more minorities in executive and coaching positions — has been considered a bust and with many feeling that it has done little to encourage the hiring of minorities in the NFL.
In addition to that proposal, teams and the NFL league office must also include minorities and/or female applicants to be interviewed for senior-level positions, including club president jobs.
According to NFL columnist Jim Trotter:
If a team hires a minority head coach, that team, in the draft preceding the coach’s second season, would move up six spots from where it is slotted to pick in the third round.
If a team were to fill both positions with diverse candidates in the same year, that club could jump 16 spots — six for the coach, 10 for the GM — and potentially move from the top of the third round to the middle of the second round.
