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Charlotte, North Carolina — For years, the National Football League has pushed teams to choose more head coaches who are minorities.
It appears like the mission is finally paying off.
As a result of the four minority head coach hires this season (Raheem Morris of Atlanta, Jerod Mayo of New England, Antonio Pierce of Las Vegas, and Dave Canales of Carolina), there will be nine coaches of color in the league as of the 2024 season, the highest number ever. The positions in Seattle and Washington are still unfilled.
It’s a “major milestone” for the NFL, according to Richard Lapchick, founder of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
Lapchick told The Associated Press, “The league has been struggling to raise the percentage of head coaches of color, particularly Black head coaches.” “The NFL has made a lot of effort to implemented initiatives to make this happen, and the benefits are now being realized.”
The Rooney Rule was first implemented by the NFL in 2003 with the goal of increasing the number of minority head coaches (and eventually general managers and executives). The rule requires teams to interview at least one person of color prior to making a hiring decision.
In 2020, the league went one step further and added to the regulation, offering teams compensatory draft picks in the event that a minority coach or top football executive left for another team, as a means of encouraging them to recruit minority assistant coaches. According to NFL regulations, if two minority employees are hired by another club, teams will earn third-round selections in each of the following two drafts, or in each of the following three drafts, if the applicants remained on the team for at least two years.